economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports … and 22 percent of world GDP. We examine determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import …

negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World … explanations for these puzzling results as well as potential implications for the sustainability of the rules of the world trading …