There exists an extensive literature that attempts to identify important factors that determine trade policies. An … understanding of these important factors could be useful when negotiating trade agreements, especially in agriculture, which is a … in an attempt to understand why anti-trade bias (as opposed to pro-trade bias, which is predicted by the G&H (1994) model …

into effect. This paper reviews these developments and their implications for trade and future trade negotiations. The WTO …

Using a generalized gravity equation, this study tests for the Linder effect in differentiated agrifood product trade …, i.e. as the demand structures of two countries become more similar, their trade intensity increases. Two proxies of … to capture the Linder effect. In addition, two measures of bilateral trade, the Grubel and Lloyed index, and the value of …

Current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) World Trade Organisation negotiations include proposals that would affect the … trade barriers that protect Canada’s chicken producers from foreign competition. This research analyses the effects of the …

In a meta-analysis of trade policy models, Hess and von Cramon-Taubadel (2008) use over 5800 simulated welfare effects … conclude that meta-analysis can provide insights into the behaviour of trade policy models beyond what is possible with …

Recent empirical studies have estimated the trade flow effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and … its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). One important, although largely untested, conclusion … from this literature is that the GATT/WTO has worked well if we ignore trade in agriculture – one of the institution …

The degree to which countries are pursuing regional trade agreements (RTAs) has been nothing short of extraordinary … world trade. This study constructs and uses an updated database of agricultural trade flows from 1992‐2008 to shed light on … outsider status, the existing dummy‐variable approach is modified by incorporating region‐specific extra‐bloc trade flow …