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Kerry A. Chase
Researcher at Brandeis University
Publications - 11
Citations - 415
Kerry A. Chase is an academic researcher from Brandeis University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Free trade & Protectionism. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 11 publications receiving 400 citations. Previous affiliations of Kerry A. Chase include Tufts University.
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Economic Interests and Regional Trading Arrangements: The Case of NAFTA
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the United States on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and conclude that regional arrangements are an attractive mechanism to liberalize trade for firms in need of larger than national markets to take advantage of economies of scale or to develop production-sharing networks.
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Multilateralism compromised: the mysterious origins of GATT Article XXIV
TL;DR: The GATT treaty's loophole for free trade areas in Article XXIV has puzzled and deceived prominent scholars, who trace its postwar origins to US aspirations to promote European integration and efforts to persuade developing countries to endorse the Havana Charter as discussed by the authors.
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Trading Blocs: States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy
TL;DR: Trading Blocs as mentioned in this paper examines domestic politics involved in the creation of trading blocs and argues that certain businesses lobby for trade blocs in order to gain economies of scale or move stages of production abroad.
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Imperial protection and strategic trade policy in the interwar period
TL;DR: A comparative analysis of trade policy in this period demonstrates that small-scale producers with small domestic markets in Japan, the UK and Germany vigorously advocated the formation of protectionist trading blocs.
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Protecting Free Trade: The Political Economy of Rules of Origin
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the domestic groups generally most favorable to FTAs differ in their preferences over rules of origin: industries with large returns to scale favor strict rules to gain scale economies in an FTA, while industries with multinational supply chains prefer to accommodate offshore procurement.