. The paper assembles detailed information about the IP provisions contained in active RTAs notified to the WTO. The goal … was to expand beyond the more commonly studied RTAs, to review the full array of agreements notified to the WTO and thus …

2013. WTO commitments (1.0 p.p. average cut) and unilateral liberalizations on a most-favored-nation (MFN) basis (1.3 p …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent … developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its … central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we identify key unresolved issues. …

There are essentially two types of plurilateral trade agreements (PAs) among WTO Members, an exclusive and an open … discussions. This article takes a sceptical view, since any such PA would need to be agreed by consensus among all 160-odd WTO … treaty frameworks, as "WTO-extra" understandings. …

access opportunities and WTO disciplines are briefly summarized. Some of these reflect good intentions towards developing …

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services … for the WTO; (iv) standard political economy factors such as adjustment costs and resistance by incumbents to erosion of … rents; and (v) concerns that the WTO will affect the ability of regulators to enforce national norms. We argue that all of …

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

then raises the question why no agreement could be reached in the WTO to launch negotiations on competition law. In this … Paper we review what was on the table in the WTO and discuss the lessons that are suggested by the seven-year effort in the … WTO to develop a negotiating/cooperation agenda. We argue that the process was a productive one, as it helped identify …