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Bringing GATT into the Core

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  • Carsten Kowalczyk
  • Tomas Sjostrom

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This paper calculates international income transfers which implement a Pareto optimal trade equilibrium in a world where many countries trade many goods.

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  • Carsten Kowalczyk & Tomas Sjostrom, 1993. "Bringing GATT into the Core," NBER Working Papers 4343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:4343
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    JEL classification:

    • G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation

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