2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The effect of the formation of bilateral FTA between dissimilar countries on multilateral free trade
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26380318
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | FTA |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research investigates the effect of a formation of bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between asymmetric countries on the feasibility of multilateral free trade (MFT). Main results are as follows: (1) Suppose that market scale of countries are similar. Expansion of FTA paves the way for MFT, although Overlapping FTAs does not. (2) As compared with Cournot competition, Stackelberg competition lowers the feasibility of a bilateral FTA as well as the attainability of MFT.
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| Free Research Field |
社会科学
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