Methodological issues arising from the estimation of tariff equivalents of barriers to services trade are very relevant … partial liberalization of the sector; any measurement errors will strongly affect the estimated gains. Using the Global Trade … equation estimated at sectoral level for 9 services sectors and 65 countries. We also estimate trade equations for services …

'Études Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales, Paris) and ITC (International Trade Centre, Geneva), based on ITC’s MAcMap raw data …, mainly due to unilateral liberalizations and to new preferential trade agreements. The decline in the ad valorem equivalent … of specific tariffs of some agricultural products, linked to the surge in world prices, lowers the average protection. In …

system (HS6), i.e. more than 5000 products, for the year 2004. It includes ad valorem equivalents on MFN tariffs for 169 … and compound tariffs and tariff rate quotasdata are also provided, at the same level of detail. In this paper we present … provide evidence on the world applied protection in 2004. Finally we investigate variations in tariffs occurred between 2001 …

econometric estimations consider impacts on both the extensive and intensive margins of trade. The reduced tariffs imposed on … disaggregated (6 digit level of the harmonized system – HS – classification) bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs … affected the probability of recording new flows. Growth in emerging countries’ exports at the extensive margin of trade has …

We study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set a simple theoretical model … predicting that the closer a country to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its trade. The idea is that … security measures, which impede trade, are directed both against the source country of terror and its neighbor countries where …