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Mostafa Beshkar

Mostafa Beshkar
Assistant Professor of Economics and Peter T. Paul Research Fellow
McConnell Hall, 320C
603.862.1227
Mostafa [dot] Beshkar [at] unh [dot] edu

Fields of Specialization:

International Trade, Law & Economics, Microeconomics

Recent Research:

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Working Papers:

"Arbitration and Renegotiation in Trade Agreements." (2011) [Download: Paper, Slides]

"Tariff Binding and Overhang: Theory and Evidence." With Eric Bond and Youngwoo Rho (2010, updated December 2011) [Download: Paper]

“Flexibility in Trade Agreements.” With Eric W. Bond, (2010)

“Estimating a Model of Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization.” (2008, updated May 2010) [Download: Paper]

Published Papers:

“Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards: A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process.” Journal of International Economics 82 (1), September 2010, pp. 35-48. [Download]

“Optimal Remedies in International Trade Agreements,” European Economic Review 54 (3), April 2010, pp. 455-466. [Download]

“The Theory of Dispute Resolution with Application to Intellectual Property Rights”, (2008) Joint with Eric W. Bond, in Intellectual Property, Growth and Trade, Ed. Keith Maskus, Elsevier B.V. [Publisher's WebsitePrepublication Version]

Book Reviews

Schropp, Simon A.B., “Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO.” In World Trade Review (2010), 9 : 542-545, Cambridge University Press.

Honors & Awards:

Peter T. Paul Research Fellow (2010- )

First Runner Up, WTO Essay Competition for Young Economists (2009) (Link to the news release)