What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

This paper contributes new empirical evidence on the relationship between productivity and international trade. This is … of the relationship between trade in intermediate and final products and productivity in countries at different stages of … economic development. The results show that various forms of trade integration strongly support productivity in emerging …

report estimates the fiscal costs of policies applied. Developments in trade flows, price transmission, inflation … interventions to minimise the impact on consumers were not always successful, even if trade flows were disrupted, and had taxing …

international investment and trade in goods and services related to renewable energy has been rapid, but it has not always been …-dumping duties, in response to some countries‘ policies on the grounds that they distort trade. Against this background, this paper … to promote renewable energy, focusing on those that might have implications for trade — both those that are likely to …

with this intermittency problem. Cross-border trade in electricity appears to be one of them since it enables countries to … examination of the European electricity market confirm the importance of cross-border electricity trade in increasing the … operations and exerting downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices. The positive contribution that cross-border trade in …