trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper …The dispute resolution procedures of the World Trade Organization allow sanctions to be imposed when a country is … unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the …

economic crisis. Evidence on the variety of discrimination implemented by governments, characteristics of the recent systemic …. Pessimistic implications are drawn concerning the future restraining role that multilateral trade obligations could ever play …

barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If …" (Easterly 2005, Rodrik 2006). However, the empirical basis for judging recent trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad … hoc; results are typically not judged against models; trade policies are poorly measured (or not measured at all, as when …

The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no … end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on … the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …

Several factors potentially responsible for the failure to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations … 2007, and pervasive unilateral trade reform to eliminate the “landing zone” for this particular multilateral negotiation …

The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated … that was “harvested” from the broader Doha round. This paper analyzes the outcome of the trade facilitation talks, assesses … demonstrates the importance of issue linkage in achieving cooperation in trade policy matters. …

system have increased. Several trends are taking public policies further away from the core WTO disciplines of non-discrimination … trade-oriented states, have come to believe that interregional accords may provide a viable alternative to the WTO, and will …

discrimination against foreign commercial interests. As in previous systemic economic crises, policymakers altered the mix of …