The role of dispute settlement procedures in international trade agreements

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 475-515

  Maggi, Giovanni ^a   Staiger, Robert W ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPUTE RESOLUTION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRADE AGREEMENT; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79955462501     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjq005     Document Type: Article

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