Mostafa Beshkar

Working Papers

• "The Balance of Concessions in Trade Agreements" (2024)(with Pao-Li Chang and Shenxi Song)
• “The Cost of Dissolving the WTO: The Role of Global Value Chains” (May 2020)(with Ahmad Lashkaripour).
• “Interdependence of Trade Policies in General Equilibrium.” (June 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. [PDF]
• "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)(with Eric Bond) 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

Book Reviews

• 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.

Work in Progress

• "On the Distribution of Gains from Multinational Production" (2020)
• "Manipulating Expectations: China's Strategic Trade Policy in the 1990s" (2020)
• "The Long term Effects of Industrial Policy: The Case of Persian Rugs" (2021)
• "Making Trade Agreements Work for Oil-Exporting Developing Countries" (2022)

Contact

email: mbeshkar@iu.edu

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