Trade agreements as endogenously incomplete contracts

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 394-419

  Horn, Henrik ^a,b   Maggi, Giovanni ^c,d   Staiger, Robert W ^d,e  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

^b CEPR ^*  (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952376204     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.1.394     Document Type: Article

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