Brown Bag Series - March 17
DAN Management Brown Bag Series
Title: The Timing of Deep Integration
Presented by: Professor Daniel Brou
March 17, 2017
1:00 - 2:00 pm
SSC 4444
This paper examines the rationale for deep integration in the world trading system. Deep integration refers to international trade agreements that target a variety of domestic (“behind-the-border”) policies in addition to traditional border measures, like tariffs. I develop a model where national policy-makers can use tariffs and non-border measures in pursuit of their political goals. The government must balance welfare considerations, lobbying efforts and credibility issues. The model supports, as an optimal development, the gradual spread of deep integration, but only after traditional terms-of-trade considerations have been addressed by tariff restrictions. This result is consistent with observed patterns of international trade agreements.
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