Replication data for: What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kyle Bagwell; Robert W. Staiger

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
20061172_data			10/11/2019 03:49:PM
LICENSE.txt	text/plain	14.6 KB	10/11/2019 11:49:AM

Project Citation:

Bagwell, Kyle, and Staiger, Robert W. Replication data for: What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112430V1

Project Description

Summary: According to the terms-of-trade theory, governments use trade agreements to escape from a terms-of-trade-driven prisoner's dilemma. We use the terms-of-trade theory to develop a relationship that predicts negotiated tariff levels on the basis of pre-negotiation data: tariffs, import volumes and prices, and trade elasticities. We then confront this predicted relationship with data on the outcomes of tariff negotiations associated with the accession of new members to the World Trade Organization. We find strong and robust support for the central predictions of the terms-of-trade theory in the observed pattern of negotiated tariff cuts. (JEL F11, F13)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
F11 Neoclassical Models of Trade
F13 Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations

Related Publications

Download this project

Published Versions

V1 [2019-10-11]

Export Metadata

Dublin Core

DDI 2.5

Report a Problem

Found a serious problem with the data, such as disclosure risk or copyrighted content? Let us know.

This material is distributed exactly as it arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.