00647nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000010000200001724500600003726000090009752003770010658300190048394200060050299900170050820260716043347.0  aLEVY, Philip I.  aPolitical - economic analysis of free-trade agreements.  c1997  aDemonstrates that bilateral free-trade agreements can undermine political support for further multilateral trade liberalization.  Points out that if a bilateral trade agreement offers dis-proportionately large gains to key agents in a country, then their reservation utility is raised above the multilateral free-trade level, and a multilateral agreement would be blocked.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR  cA  c45627d45627