's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), within firms adjustments to intensified low-wage competition is analyzed …

Organization (WTO), plurilateral and bilateral regulatory harmonisation, mutual recognition and enforcement cooperation, and …

Organization (WTO), but the progress has since been more modest. Yet it provides opportunities to further trade liberalisation in …

main policy areas under negotiation at the WTO, with the aim to estimate the impact of addressing specific facilitation …

We use 6-digit bilateral trade data to document the effect of WTO/GATT membership on the extensive and intensive …, we show that the impact of the WTO is concentrated almost exclusively on the extensive product margin of trade, i ….e. trade in goods that were not previously traded. In our preferred specification, WTO membership increases the extensive …

This study documents some unintended consequences of the WTO membership by providing evidence on displacement of tariff … evasion driven by the WTO accession process. We argue that implementation of Article VII of the GATT resulted in limiting … discretion of customs officials in terms of assessing unit values of goods. While prior to the WTO accession, officials were free …