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100 _aLEVY, Philip I.
245 _aPolitical - economic analysis of free-trade agreements.
260 _c1997
520 _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.
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