security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change …

inclusion of GATS and TRIPS in the WTO made the WTO a more important influence on international cultural policy than its GATT …. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from the Silk Road to modern electronic networks. Historically, peripatetic … either separate international cultural policy governance from the WTO or strengthen the bargaining position of cultural …

favoured nation (MFN) clause - as developed under the GATT and GATS - and the non-discrimination clause among countries …

World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There … world economy. Post the financial crisis global value chains started to unwind and, possibly associated with this, Chinese … global investment, as well as intra-euro area trade, both of which are trade intensive. The slowdown in world trade growth …

-enforcing policy coordination implied by theoretical models, and then examines the empirical studies on trade disputes of the GATT/WTO. …

question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied … GATT/WTO and we argue that an economic perspective can go a long way toward revealing a consistent logic to the inclusion …

We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal … our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …