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Trade Agreements, Regulatory Sovereignty and Democratic Legitimacy

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

Governments increasingly are seeking to use bilateral and regional trade agreements to reduce the cost-increasing effects of differences in product market regulation. They also pursue regulatory cooperation independent of trade agreements. It is important to understand what is being done through...

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The Doha Round and Preference Erosion : A Symposium

Hoekman, Bernard - 2006

The trade and welfare impacts of multilateral liberalization on individual countries and groups within countries depend on many factors-including the depth of liberalization by trading partners, the extent of countries' own reforms, the responsiveness of investors to changes in relative prices...

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Burning Down the House? The Appellate Body in the Centre of the WTO Crisis

Hoekman, Bernard - 2019

In December 2019 the WTO Appellate Body (AB) will cease to operate unless the United States stops blocking new appointments. The US argues the AB has exceeded its mandate and has indicated it wants to ensure that the AB performs the role originally assigned to it in 1995. This paper discusses...

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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

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Determinants of Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis

Gawande, Kishore - 2017

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

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Proposals for WTO Reform : A Synthesis and Assessment

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … internal and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others -- such …

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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …

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Conclude Doha : It Matters !

Hoekman, Bernard - 2016

The Doha Round must be concluded not because it will produce dramatic liberalization but because it will create greater security of market access. Its conclusion would strengthen, symbolically and substantively, the WTO s valuable role in restraining protectionism in the current downturn. What...

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Supply Chains, Mega-Regionals and Multilateralism : A Road Map for the WTO

Hoekman, Bernard - 2014

At the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Bali it was agreed to develop a work program to conclude the long-running Doha round. This report argues that any work program should recognize that goods and services are increasingly produced in international supply chains. Many of the policies...

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The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO : Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?

Hoekman, Bernard - 2014

The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries that was...

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