Governing trade beyond tariffs : the politics of multinational production and its implications for international cooperation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- While tariffs have been effectively eliminated over the last 50 years, a number of regulatory barriers to commerce persist. This thesis explains this persistence as a consequence of the interests of firms and governments and the limits of existing international institutions. This thesis develops three general findings. First, unlike with tariffs, the elimination of regulatory barriers to trade is not in the competitive interests of the most internationalized firms. Second, governments have an interest in using regulations to attract investment and retain the profits of that investment. Third, the existing institutions that govern trade, while able to resolve tariffs, are ill suited to address the challenges of regulatory protection. These three findings, illustrated with formal and empirical analysis, explain why cooperation in the area of regulatory protection remains difficult.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Gulotty, Robert |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
| Primary advisor | Goldstein, Judith |
| Thesis advisor | Goldstein, Judith |
| Thesis advisor | Bagwell, Kyle |
| Thesis advisor | Lipscy, Phillip Y |
| Thesis advisor | Tomz, Michael |
| Advisor | Bagwell, Kyle |
| Advisor | Lipscy, Phillip Y |
| Advisor | Tomz, Michael |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Robert Gulotty. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Robert Joseph Gulotty
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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