Mostafa Beshkar

Mostafa Beshkar

Associate Professor of Economics

Indiana University-Bloomington

               

Network of Net Bilateral Tariff Concessions (1995)

Economic Concession Network Graph in 1995

Network of Net Bilateral Tariff Concessions (2018)

Economic Concession Network Graph in 2018

Net Tariff Concessions over Time

Intertemporal Net Concessions Graph

Working Papers

"The Balance of Concessions in Trade Agreements"
(Updated December 2025) (with Pao-Li Chang and Shenxi Song)
"The Cost of Dissolving the WTO: The Role of Global Value Chains"
(2020) (with Ahmad Lashkaripour)
"Interdependence of Trade Policies in General Equilibrium"
(2020) (with Ahmad Lashkaripour)

Publications

"How Does Import Market Power Matter for Trade Agreements?"
(2022) (with Ryan Lee) Journal of International Economics
"Dispute Settlement with Second-Order Uncertainty"
(2021) (with Jee-Hyeong Park) International Economic Review
"Optimal Trade Policy with Trade Imbalances"
(2020) (with Ali Shourideh) Journal of Monetary Economics
"Trade Agreements: Theoretical Foundations"
(2019) (With Eric W. Bond) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
"Estimating a Model of Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization"
(2019) (with Mahdi Majbouri) The WTO and Economic Development, MIT Press
"Cap and Escape in Trade Agreements"
(2017) (with Eric Bond) American Economic Journal - Microeconomics. 9(4): 171–202
"Escape Clause in Trade Agreements"
(2016) in Handbook of Commercial Policy. Ed. Bagwell and Staiger, Elsevier
"Arbitration and Renegotiation in Trade Agreements"
(2016) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
"Revisiting Procedure and Precedent in the WTO: An Analysis of US – Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Measures (China)"
(2016) (with Adam Chilton) World Trade Review 15(02), 375-395
"Tariff Binding and Overhang: Theory and Evidence"
(2015) (with Eric Bond and Youngwoo Rho) Journal of International Economics. 97 (1) 1-13 (Lead Article)
"Safeguards and Investigations"
(2014) (with Eric Bond) in Trade, Globalization and Development. Ed. Rajat Acharyya, Springer Verlag
"Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards: A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process"
Journal of International Economics 82 (1), September 2010, pp. 35-48
"Optimal Remedies in International Trade Agreements"
(2010) European Economic Review 54 (3) 455-466
"The Theory of Dispute Resolution with Application to Intellectual Property Rights"
(2008) Joint with Eric Bond, in Intellectual Property, Growth and Trade, Ed. Keith Maskus, Elsevier B.V.

Other Writings

Review of "A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century" By Robert Staiger
(2023) Journal of Economic Literature 61(2), 736-744
Review of "Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO" By Simon Schropp
(2010) World Trade Review 9: 542-545. Cambridge University Press

Teaching

Information about courses and teaching philosophy will be added here.

Contact Information

Email: mbeshkar@iu.edu

Institution: Indiana University-Bloomington

Department: Economics

Title: Associate Professor