theory guides our empirical assessment. We use instrumental variables to estimate the model on trade volume outcomes from WTO …

This paper challenges the contention that WTO rules had much impact on state behaviour during the recent global … crisis, as well as on certain, often overlooked features of WTO obligations are used to support a conclusion that the WTO … rules altered at most the composition of crisis-era protectionism. As to the quantum of protectionism, it is unclear how WTO …

the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services …

security of market access. Its conclusion would strengthen, symbolically and substantively, the WTO’s valuable role in …

new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade … examines why these issues are becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they …

WTO. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from … relevance of the WTO for developing countries. Bolstering WTO mechanisms to monitor the actions of both developing and high …

the WTO may add to that difficulty. New agricultural biotechnologies could ease that situation. The adoption and spread of …

clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) creation in 1995, it is …, with many questioning what can feasibly be accomplished at the WTO in the near to medium term. A 2006 EC decision to …-polar WTO; recognition of the fact that the principal liberalising accomplishment to date of the multilateral trading system has …