While considerable progress has been made in analyzing the formulation of international economic policies, the existing literature remains deficient in several respects. First, the existing models take a relatively simplistic view of the political-economy environment. For example, in contrast to the observed reality, a large majority of the models view the government as a monolithic entity. Second, there is only limited recognition of the political-economy interactions between interest groups across national borders. Third, dynamic factors governing trade policy formulation have been essentially absent in the literature. Fourth, the empirical work in this area, both cross-industry within national boundaries and cross-national, is very much in infancy and in need of further development. Fifth, other aspects of international economic policy such as foreign aid and foreign direct investment have been scarcely addressed in the existing literature. In this volume, edited by Devashish Mitra and Arvind Panagariya, a group of distinguished scholars in international trade, especially from the younger generation, analyzes several of these important but neglected aspects of the political economy of international economic policy. The volume contains 12 essays topped by an introduction by the editors. The contributors to this volume are Alok Bohara, Carl Davidson, David Feldman, Kishore Gawande, Amy Glass, Omer Gokcekus, Keith Hall, William Kaempfer, Justin Knowles, Pravin Krishna, Phil Levy, Chris Magee, Steve Matusz, Wolfgang Mayer, John McLaren, Devashish Mitra, Alex Mourmouras, Doug Nelson, Arvind Panagariya, Martin Richardson, Martin Ross, Kamal Saggi and Ed Tower. The volume makes major advances in the area of political economy of trade, aid and investment policy, and therefore will be of considerable interest to academic researchers and students of international economics. Because of its obvious focus on the process of policy formulation, economists as think tanks, international institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization, and trade-policy analysts in developed and developing countries will also read it.
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Chapter 1. Introduction (D. Mitra, A. Panagariya). Part I. Making of Trade Policy: Theory. Chapter 2. Trade-Policy Making by an Assembly (J. McLaren, B. Karabay). Chapter 3. Should Policy Makers be Concerned About Adjustment Costs? (C. Davidson, S. Matusz). Chapter 4. Non-Tariff Barriers as a Test of Political Economy Theories (P. I. Levy). Chapter 5. The Peculiar Political Economy of NAFTA: Complexity, Uncertainty and Footloose Policy Preferences (K. Hall, D. Nelson). Part II. Making of Trade Policy: Empirical Analysis. Chapter 6. Interest and Ideology In the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act: A Bayesian Multivariate Probit Analysis (A. Bohara, K. Gawande). Chapter 7. Industry and Factor Linkages between Lobby Groups (C. Magee). Chapter 8. Sweetening the Pot: How American Sugar Buys Protection (O. Gokcekus, J.Knowles, E. Tower). Part III. Inter-Country Interactions. Chapter 9. Unilateralism in Trade Policy: A Survey of Alternative Political-Economy Approaches (P. Krishna, D. Mitra). Chapter 10. Trade creation and Residual Quota Protection in a Free Trade Area with Domestic Monopoly (D. Feldman, M. Richardson). Chapter 11. The Gravity of Sanctions against South Africa (W. Kaempfer, M. Ross). Part IV. Aid and Foreign Investment Policies. Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Unconditional and Conditional Foreign Assistance: Grants vs. Loan Rollovers (W. Mayer, A. Mourmouras). Chapter 13. Crowding Out and Distributional Effects of FDI Policies (A. Jocelyn Glass, K. Saggi).
