Free trade between large and small: What's in it for the large country? What's in it for the small?

Jan 1, 2008
By: Kowalczyk C Frontiers of Economics and Globalization 417 - 427
Abstract
This chapter provides a formal analysis of the economic welfare effects for large and small partners to free trade agreements. Michaely (1998) has demonstrated that large country welfare is U-shaped in the small country's size. I derive the welfare for the large country for all possible small country sizes, and show that the maximum possible loss for the large country is twice its tariff revenue. I identify the data necessary to estimate the welfare effects and consider how initial trade volumes, tariffs, and international price differences affect the large country's welfare. © 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Copy Citation Kowalczyk, C. (2008). Free trade between large and small: What's in it for the large country? What's in it for the small?. Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 4, 417-427. doi:10.1016/S1574-8715(08)04022-0 Copied to clipboard.
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