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Free Trade Area Membership as a Stepping Stone to Development : The Case of ASEAN

Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2013

countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of … impacts on sensitive domestic industries in Vietnam. The study recommends that accession to AFTA be viewed as an important …

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China and the WTO : Accession, Policy Reform, and Poverty Reduction Strategies

Bhattasali, Deepak; Li, Shantong; Martin, Will - 2013

accession, their implications for the economy, and the availability and effects of supporting policies. "China and the WTO …" analyzes the nature of the reforms involved in China's accession to the WTO, assesses their implications for the world economy … building blocks for later chapters, which analyze the implications of reform for the economy. The book also includes a series …

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Rules and Discretion in Trade Policy

Staiger, Robert W. - 1988

We argue in this paper that the second-best nature of trade-policy intervention makes it likely that the issue of time consistency viii be an important consideration in determining both the extent and the efficacy of such intervention in most environments. The point is seen most directly by...

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Rules and Discretion in Trade Policy

Staiger, Robert W.; Tabellini, Guido - 2022

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Agricultural trade reform under the Doha Agenda : some key issues

Martin, Will (contributor); Anderson, Kym (contributor) - 2007

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Trade Preference Erosion : Measurement and Policy Response

Hoekman, Bernard; Martin, Will; Primo Braga, Carlos A. - 2012

The multilateral trade system rests on the principle of nondiscrimination. The most-favored-nation (MFN) clause embodied in article one of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was the defining principle for a system that emerged in the post, Second World War era, largely in reaction...

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What is at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2006

the world economy might look like in 2015 without and with a successful conclusion to the Doha round, how far Doha could …

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Rules Versus Discretion in Trade Policy : an Empirical Analysis

Staiger, Robert W. - 2011

We test empirically for evidence that government tariff-setting behavior depends on the degree of discretion with which policy-makers are endowed. We do this by studying government tariff choices under two distinct environments. One environment is that of tariffs set under the Escape Clause...

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International Trade and Domestic Regulation

Staiger, Robert W. - 2009

Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...

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Trade Wars : What Do They Mean? Why are They Happening Now? What are the Costs?

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2019

How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? This paper offers an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that typically offered by economic commentators. More...

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