TY - BOOK AU - Bassetto, Marco AU - Huo, Zhen AU - Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor TI - Institution Building without Commitment SN - 0002-8282 PB - American Economic Review KW - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents KW - International Trade Organizations KW - Repeated Games KW - Trade Policy KW - Wealth and Policy Objectives KW - Macroeconomics N2 - We propose a theory of gradualism in the implementation of good policies, suitable for environments featuring time consistency. We downplay the role of the initial period by allowing agents both to wait for future agents to start equilibrium play and to r UR - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20201365 ER -