Wilfred J. Ethier

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science

133 South 36th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297

United States

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1.

Globalization, Globalisation: Trade, Technology, and Wages (Second Version)

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Nov 2002
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Fragmentation, Equipment Utilization, Out-sourcing, Input Substitution, Input Complementarity

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The Theory of Trade Policy and Trade Agreements: A Critique

PIER Working Paper No. 06-013
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Jun 2006
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Political externalities, trade agreements, the Received Theory, the Terms-of-Trade Puzzle, the Anti-Trade-Bias Puzzle

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External Economies of Scale and Comparative Advantage

PIER Working Paper No. 08-008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Feb 2008
Wilfred J. Ethier and Roy J. Ruffin
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Houston
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external increasing returns to scale, advantage reversals, size reversals, scale-dominant economy, comparative-cost dominant economy

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Regionalism in a Multilateral World

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Regionalism in a Multilateral World

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Sep 1998
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Regionalism in a Multilateral World

Posted: 21 Oct 1998
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Intellectual Property Rights and Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Dec 2003
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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TRIPS, externalities, trade agreements, hostages

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The Politics of International Trade

Forthcoming in: Roger D. Congleton, Bernard N. Grofman, and Stefan Voigt (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK., CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6456
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Jun 2017
Wilfred J. Ethier and Arye L. Hillman
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Political Support, Rent Creation, Budgetary Revenue, Trade Negotiations

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Punishments and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreement

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Jun 2001
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Incomplete Contracts, Reciprocal Conflict, Commensurate Punishment, Abidement Property

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Trade Policies Based on Political Externalities: An Exploration, Third Version

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Feb 2004
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Political externalities, trade agreements, the Received Theory, the Terms-of-Trade Puzzle, the Anti-Trade-Bias Puzzle

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Political Externalities, Nondiscrimination, and a Multilateral World (Second Version)

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Oct 2002
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Multilateralism, MFN, Reciprocity, Gradual Liberalization, Concession Diversion, The Received Theory, Political Externalities

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Protectionism and Increasing Returns with Comparative-Cost Disadvantage

PIER Working Paper No. 11-027
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Roy J. Ruffin and Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Houston and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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increasing returns, protection, comparative-cost disadvantage, flexible capacity

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Trade Agreements Based on Political Externalities, Second Version

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 Dec 2003
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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The Floating World: Issues in International Trade Theory

PIER Working Paper No. 13-052
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Sep 2013
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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factor endowments, scale economies, trade policy, direct investment, regionalism

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Escape and Entry Mechanisms in the Multilateral Trade System

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Apr 2002
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Escape Mechanisms, Equivalent Withdrawal of Concessions, Insurance Triangle, Entry Mechanisms, The New Regionalism

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Selling 'Protection for Sale'

PIER Working Paper No. 06-014
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Jun 2006
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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The Protection-for-Sale model, the Received Theory, the Terms-of-Trade Puzzle, the Export-Subsidy-Transfer Puzzle

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The Political Economy of Protection

PIER Working Paper No. 10-022
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Jul 2010
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Political support function, Protection For Sale, trade agreements, exchange of market access

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The Greater the Differences, the Greater the Gains?: Second Version

PIER Working Paper No. 08-009
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Feb 2008
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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trade gains, international differences

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The Trade Agreement Embarrassment, Second Version

PIER Working Paper No. 13-049
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Sep 2013
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Multilateralism, Standard Academic Model, Practitioners’ Conventional Wisdom, terms of trade, political economy

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The Political-Support View of Protection

PIER Working Paper No. 11-026
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Political support function, Protection For Sale, Cognitive Dissonance problem, Black Box problem

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Multinational Firms, Technology Diffusion and Trade

NBER Working Paper No. w3825
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2022
Wilfred J. Ethier and James R. Markusen
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics
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The Trade-Agreement Embarrassment

Journal of East Asian Economic Integration Vol. 17, No. 3, (September) 243-260
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2016
Wilfred J. Ethier
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Multilateralism, Standard Academic Model, Practitioners’ Conventional Wisdom, Terms of Trade, Political Economy

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The Theorems of International Trade with Factor Mobility

NBER Working Paper No. w1115
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2022
Wilfred J. Ethier and Lars E. O. Svensson
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Stockholm School of Economics
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