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The Economics of Reciprocity: Theory and Evidence on Bilateral Trading Arrangements

In: International Trade and Finance

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  • Richard E. Caves

    (Harvard University)

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Most modern research on the theory of price discrimination in general equilibrium has sprung from the interest of countries in forming customs unions or free-trade areas. Yet these two forms of integration far from exhaust the kinds of preferential agreements that are observed in real life. The theorists have been conscious that their analyses potentially apply to a much wider set of arrangements — witness the titles of the two leading contemporary treatises [18], [38]. But they have not used their apparatus to explore all the positive and normative questions raised by some of these other types of discriminatory arrangements. Nor, perforce, has the general-equilibrium theory of discrimination been applied to these questions in practice.

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  • Richard E. Caves, 1973. "The Economics of Reciprocity: Theory and Evidence on Bilateral Trading Arrangements," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Willy Sellekaerts (ed.), International Trade and Finance, chapter 1, pages 17-54, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01269-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01269-5_2
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