Escalation, economic coverage and institutional scope in trade wars Universiteit Antwerpen
Trade conflict, dispute or war – what is in a word? In this chapter, we construct a typology of trade conflicts based on two key dimensions of trade policy: the economic coverage and institutional scope of the policy instruments. Along the first dimension, conflicts range from from small, product-specific disagreements to large, across the board conflicts, affecting entire economies, while the second dimension captures variation in the number ...