BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Kishore Gawande on The Political Economy of Trade Agreements: A n Empirical InvestigationKishore Gawande\, \;Professor of Economics an d Government\, Texas A&\;M UniversityAbstract: More than 300 trade agre ements have been signed since 1950. Two leading theoretical answers to exp lain the phenomenal growth in trade integration and to understand the vari ation in speed and scope of liberalization in the design of trade agreemen ts have emerged. One is that trade agreements internalize a terms-of-trade externalities (Bagwell and Staiger1999): without trade agreements\, we wo uld live in a world where countries beggar their neighbors with high tarif fs. The other is that trade agreements help governments solve their commit ment-to-free-trade problems (Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare 2007)\, which they bring on themselves by acceding to protectionist demands of domestic firms : trade agreements present an opportunity to governments to break free of these ties and liberalize. This paper rigorously tests model-driven hypoth eses from both theories. A unique data set onAsian and Latin American trad e agreements is constructed. Within-variation in tariffs across country-pa rtner dyads for each manufacturing sector over time is used in the context of quasi-experimental methods.Short Bio: Kishore S. Gawandeis Professor o f Economics and Government at the Bush School of Texas A&\;M University where he also holds the Helen and Roy RyuChair in International Affairs. His areas of specialty are empirical political economy and trade policy in which he has published extensively. His current research interests focus on the politics of free trade areas\, globalization and regime quality\, a nd determinants of conflict. His work has been published in top economics journals. DTEND:20140331T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T190959Z DTSTART:20140331T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:TDPE presents: Kishore Gawande UID:RFCALITEM639141953993347925 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Kishore Gawande on The Political Economy of Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation

Kisho re Gawande\, \;Professor of Economics and Government\, Texas A& amp\;M University
Abstract: More than 300 trade agreements h ave been signed since 1950. Two leading theoretical answers to explain the phenomenal growth in trade integration and to understand the variation in speed and scope of liberalization in the design of trade agreements have emerged. One is that trade agreements internalize a terms-of-trade externa lities (Bagwell and Staiger1999): without trade agreements\, we would live in a world where countries beggar their neighbors with high tariffs. The other is that trade agreements help governments solve their commitment-to- free-trade problems (Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare 2007)\, which they bring on themselves by acceding to protectionist demands of domestic firms: trade agreements present an opportunity to governments to break free of these ti es and liberalize. This paper rigorously tests model-driven hypotheses fro m both theories. A unique data set on
Asian and Latin American trade ag reements is constructed. Within-variation in tariffs across country-partne r dyads for each manufacturing sector over time is used in the context of quasi-experimental methods.

Short Bio: Kishore S. Gawandeis P rofessor of Economics and Government at the Bush School of Texas A&\;M University where he also holds the Helen and Roy RyuChair in International Affairs. His areas of specialty are empirical political economy and trade policy in which he has published extensively. His current research intere sts focus on the politics of free trade areas\, globalization and regime q uality\, and determinants of conflict. His work has been published in top economics journals.

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