The Purpose of Trade Agreements

Gene Grossman

No 22070, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral agreements, but I do discuss briefly the reasons we might see governments forming preferential or regional trade agreements that exclude some countries.

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Date: 2016-03
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