paralysis of the Doha Round, the proliferation of preferential trade agreement and the launching of mega-regional trade … negotiations have encouraged the debate about the governance of international trade. In contrast to a benign interpretation of the … relationship between ?XXI century regionalism? and the multilateral trade regime, we argue that there is a remarkable continuity …

, they cannot explain the post-1929 increase in trade costs. Protectionism seems the most likely alternative candidate. …

Do the services commitments that countries have made in their post-Uruguay Round regional trade agreements (RTAs …) indicate the types of concessions that they would be willing to multilateralise in the General Agreement on Trade in Services … general, and especially the specific commitments and concessions that countries make on trade in services. It examines in …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

Empirical scholarship on the standards–trade relationship has been held up due to methodological challenges …: measurement, varied effects, and endogeneity. Considering the trade-effects of one particular standard (ISO 9000), we surmount …-signaling augmenting country-pair trade. Yet, ISO-rich nations benefit the most from standardization, while ISO-poor nations find ISO 9000 …

Empirical scholarship on the standards-trade relationship has been held up due to methodological challenges …: measurement, varied effects, and endogeneity. Considering the trade-effects of one particular standard (ISO 9000), we surmount …-signaling augmenting country-pair trade. Yet, ISO-rich nations (most notably European) benefit the most from standardization, while ISO …

The WTO TBT Agreement obliges governments to use international standards as a basis for regulation, yet leaves a degree … work to illustrate core aspects of the international standards debate at the WTO. In our analysis we first briefly outline … regulatory alignment could be achieved through a renewed focus on the procedures of setting international standards (the how …

trade policies. First, an export subsidy increases the steady-state average quality of exports and welfare in a LQE, but …