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The welfare effects of international trade with optimistic and pessimistic managers

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  • Frederic Peltrault

    (EURIsCO University of Paris Dauphine)

  • Michel Blanchard

    (INALCO and EURIsCO University of Paris Dauphine)

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This paper investigates the welfare effects of international trade when technological idiosyncratic risk is distorted by optimistic and pessimistic managers. We show that free trade always improves the ex-ante welfare but sometimes lowers the ex-post welfare. Free trade commitment can be regretted ex-post.

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  • Frederic Peltrault & Michel Blanchard, 2004. "The welfare effects of international trade with optimistic and pessimistic managers," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 6(15), pages 1-10.
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