Taiji Furusawa, Hideo Konishi, Eric Bond, Jonathan Eaton, Jota Ishikawa, Ron Jones, ...
The paper examines formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) as a network formation game. We build an n-country model with quasi-linear utility and a continuum of differentiated industrial goods....
How to Develop a Mock Crisis Drill Involving a School and Emergency Personnel (2007)
The content in this module will help a school system prepare and carry out a mock crisis drill involving administration, faculty, parents, students, law enforcement, emergency evacuation personnel,...
Reflection Paper: School Partnerships (2007)
In Summer 2007, a Virginia Tech Doctoral cohort completed EDAE 6924, School Community Partnerships. Here is a personal reflection authored by Eric Bond.
Trade reform design as a signal to foreign investors : lessons for economies in transition
Bond, Eric, Chiu, Steve, Estache, Antonio
A few years ago, many western companies were eager to consider investing in Eastern Europe and, more recently, in South Asia, where ongoing reform, large domestic markets, and cheap but qualified...
Using tariff indices to evaluate preferential trading arrangements : an application to Chile
The author presents a tariff index that uses constant-elasticity-of-substitution aggregators of tariff line data to calculate how preferential tariff reductions affect both prices and average tariff...
Is the Tariff the ‘Mother of Trusts’? Reciprocal Trade Liberalization with Multimarket Collusion
Constantinos Syropoulos, Eric Bond
In this paper, we explore the impact of reciprocal trade liberalization on collusive conduct between domestic and foreign firms interacting in multiple markets. In our benchmark model, which deals...
Which foreign investors worry about foreign exchange risk in South Asia and why?
The authors show that the potential benefit to a host country of forward markets or of foreign exchange guarantees depend on the investor's country of origin and on specific characteristics of...
Accession Rules and Trade Agreements: The Case of the WTO
This paper models the accession process to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a two stage game. In the first stage, member countries choose tariff rates to be applied on trade with each other. In...
Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries
Eric Bond, James R. Tybout, Hâle Utar
Relative to their counterparts in high-income regions, entrepreneurs in developing countries face less efficient financial markets, more volatile macroeconomic conditions, and higher entry costs....
Paths of efficient self-enforcing trade agreements
Trade agreements, Multilateralism versus bilateralism, Gradualism, F13,