) in NT disputes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of this burden for trade liberalization and for the …

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …

This study is part of The American Law Institute (ALI) project Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law. The … project aims to analyze the central instrument in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement for the regulation of trade in … goods – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT). The present study is one of two background studies for this …

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger … number produces more manufactured goods than the other country does. In the bilateral trade the advanced country exports …

model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core … effects found in the CP model by making the range of trade costs for which the core-periphery equilibrium occurs smaller. The …

decades. We argue that pervasive skill biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is …

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger …

trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and …