Competitionpolicy and free trade

Bradford, Anu; Büthe, Tim

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316018453.013

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Section: Background: What Are Competition Provisions In Ptas?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, the second view advocates for a complementary relationship between trade and competition policy (Bartók and Miroudot, 2008;Bond, 2013;Bradford and Büthe, 2015). This is so because market integration not only creates more opportunities for cross-border collusion but also facilitates it by increasing costs of detecting and punishing it (Bradford and Büthe, 2015). Early economic modeling reveals that liberalization indeed leads to expansive competition policy in places where trade restrictions are removed (Richardson, 1999;Horn and Levinsohn, 2001).…”

Section: Background: What Are Competition Provisions In Ptas?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When such efforts faltered within the multilateral frameworks, preferential trade agreements (PTAs) became a primary vehicle to institutionalize competition regulation at a plurilateral level (Anderson et al, 2018). The strength of such competition regulation, however, varies widely across PTAs (Büthe, 2007; Bradford and Büthe, 2015; Büthe and Cho, 2017; Bradford and Chilton, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A growing body of literature has been devoted to understanding this variation, and although it has generated important insights into this phenomenon, such research is dominated, with a few notable exceptions, by researchers working in the areas of law and economics. (Brusick et al, 2005; Sokol, 2008; Teh, 2009; Bradford and Büthe, 2015; Anderson et al, 2018; Laprévote, 2019; Bradford and Chilton, 2021; Ikejiaku and Dayao, 2021). Competition provisions in PTAs deserve more attention from international political economy scholars, not only because its practical significance has become vital in trade, investment, and development (Bartók and Miroudot, 2008; Sokol, 2008; Voigt, 2009; Büthe, 2019), but also because it provides a valuable venue to further develop existing theories on the design of international institutions.…”

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“…This study seeks to extend current scholarship on various fronts. First, it adds to a burgeoning strand of literature on competition clauses in PTA (Büthe, 2007; Bradford and Büthe, 2015; Büthe and Cho, 2017; Bradford and Chilton, 2021). It not only tests the conventional strategic enforcement thesis in a more rigorous environment, but also theorizes and evaluates a set of influential factors that shape competition provisions in PTAs.…”

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Designing Competition Clauses in Preferential Trade Agreements

Wang

2023

World Trade Review

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Competition policy is one important aspect of trade liberalization. However, when examining preferential trade agreements (PTAs), a major type of policy tools to liberalize trade, competition provisions are revealed not to be uniformly distributed across these treaties. What explains the variation in the design of competition clauses in PTAs? Borrowing insights from the rational design of international institutions and combining them with those from treaty ratification and policy diffusion literatures, I identify five major causal mechanisms through which competition provisions are incorporated into PTAs. In evaluating them, I employ a range of operationalization techniques to capture the proposed mechanisms. A treaty-level analysis of 319 PTAs over the period 1960–2015 lends strong and robust support to most of the hypothesized relationships. By integrating theoretical frameworks across international political economy literatures with that from law and economics scholarship, this study demonstrates the utility of political science thinking to the real-world international law-making.

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