This paper examines implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the … enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, we model formal trade dispute … negotiations as potentially addressing the terms-of-trade externality problem that governments implement import protection above …

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

The recent theoretical literature on the determinants of trade agreements has stressed the importance of political … gains, such as credibility, as a rationale for trade agreements. The empirical literature, however, has lagged behind in the … estimation of the economic gains or losses associated with these politically motivated trade agreements. This paper fills that …

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services … sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the general pattern …

technologies that can help mitigate global warming. An agreement to facilitate trade by cutting red tape will further expand trade … their ability to take advantage of new opportunities will be enhanced by the Doha-related “aid for trade” initiative … Agenda, most urgently the trade policy implications of climate change mitigation. …

. It argues that there has been an excessive focus by both analysts and policymakers on trade in goods and that the …

features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … policy cooperation whose solutions require international agreements with novel features? Can trade agreements that are … designed to address problems that arise when trade predominantly takes the form of the exchange of final goods be expected to …

Trade and investment in services is inhibited by a range of policy restrictions, but the best offers so far in the Doha … services trade and regulatory reform. The first is for governments to create mechanisms ('services knowledge platforms') to … bring together regulators, trade officials and stakeholders to discuss services regulatory reform. Such mechanisms could …

difficult to pursue the plurilateral route than to negotiate a preferential trade agreement outside the WTO. We argue that this …

by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade …