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The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation (2021)
Journal Article
Facchini, G., Silva, P., & Willmann, G. (2021). The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation. Economic Journal, 131(640), 3207-3240. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab044

We develop a political economy model to study the decision of representative democracies to join a preferential trading agreement (PTA), distinguishing between free trade areas (FTA) and customs unions (CU). Our theoretical analysis shows that bilate... Read More about The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation.

Coercive trade policy (2019)
Journal Article
Anesi, V., & Facchini, G. (2019). Coercive trade policy. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(3), 225-256. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20170085

Coercion is used by one government (the sender") to influence the trade practices of another (the target"). We build a two-country trade model in which coercion can be exercised unilaterally or channeled through a “weak" international organization wi... Read More about Coercive trade policy.