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Import and export resilience of the global oil trade network by Shahnazi, Rouhollah, Sajedianfard, Najmeh, Melatos, Mark

“…Given the economic and geopolitical importance of oil, it is important to understand the resilience of the global oil trade network to shocks. In this paper,…”
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Preferential trade agreements as insurance by Appelbaum, Elie, Melatos, Mark

“…•Risk averse countries may have an insurance motive for joining a preferential trade agreement.•The desire for insurance by members determines whether a trade…”
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Are Customs Unions Really So Scarce? by Appelbaum, Elie, Melatos, Mark

“…We show that generalised customs unions (CUs), in which members choose different external tariff rates while still maximising total member welfare, are always…”
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How Can Uncertainty Affect the Choice of Trade Agreements? by Appelbaum, Elie, Melatos, Mark

“…This paper analyses how uncertainty influences the formation and design of regional trade agreements (TAs). Two sources of uncertainty – in demand and costs –…”
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A field evaluation of a matching mechanism: University applicant behavior in Australia by Guillen, Pablo, Kesten, Onur, Kiefer, Alexander, Melatos, Mark

“…The majority of undergraduate university applications in the state of New South Wales-Australia's largest state-are processed by a clearinghouse, the…”
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The Trade and Welfare Impacts of Australian Quarantine Policies: The Case of Pigmeat by Beghin, John, Melatos, Mark

“…We analyse the trade and welfare impact of quarantine measures imposed by Australia on imports of pigmeat. In particular, we account for changes to Australia’s…”
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The nonlinear impact of currency unions on bilateral trade by Katayama, Hajime, Melatos, Mark

“…Most gravity model specifications assume that a currency union varies the level of bilateral trade between members by a constant proportion. We demonstrate…”
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Common External Tariff Choice in Core Customs Unions by Melatos, Mark, Woodland, Alan

“…This paper investigates how customs union members select the common external tariff (CET) to levy on imports from nonmembers. A perfectly competitive, pure…”
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Endogenous trade bloc formation in an asymmetric world by Melatos, Mark, Woodland, Alan

“…This paper investigates how variations in endowments and the structure of preferences impact on the coalition formation decisions of asymmetric countries…”
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Pareto-optimal Delegation in Customs Unions by Melatos, Mark, Woodland, Alan D.

“…Customs unions constitute agreements to engage in free intra‐union trade and to levy common external tariffs on trade with nonmembers. Existing theoretical…”
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New perspectives on trade policies, trading clubs, and dynamics of open economies by Kemp, Murray C, Long, Ngo Van, Ma, Yan, Dei, Fumio, Wong, Kar-yiu, Tung, An-chi, Wan, Jr., Henry, Melatos, Mark, Woodland, Alan, Konishi, Hideo, Kowalczyk, Carsten, Sjöström, Tomas, Horiuchi, Eiji, Ishikawa, Jota, Furusawa, Taiji, Riezman, Raymond, Wang, Ping, Bond, Eric W, Driskill, Robert A, Nishimura, Kazuo, Venditti, Alain, Yano, Makoto

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The Economics of the World Trading System by Melatos, Mark

“…The Economics of the World Trading System, by Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger, is reviewed…”
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