Cristea, AncaAit Benasser, Youssef2022-10-042022-10-042022-10-04https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27591Recent economic, political, and geostrategic developments are upending the global trade framework, weakening global multilateralism and international coordination. The stability and predictability that characterized a slow-moving and consensus-based global system of rules is ceding ground to increasingly more common deviations and irregularities. This invites new questions about the properties of international trade policy. Using a variety of econometric tools and data collection and construction tools, this dissertation empirically investigates three such irregularities that are becoming more prevalent or likely. I find that the economic costs and implications of such irregularities are rather contained in scope and limited in size. This suggests that a transition out of the existing international trade model and into a new framework might be conducted at reduced cost to the continuity and stability of overall economic activity.en-USAll Rights Reserved.International TradePolicy symmetryPolicy UncertaintyPolitical EconomyTrade DiversionTrade PolicyElectronic Thesis or Dissertation