since the Uruguay Round (1986 to 1994). It would create a free trade zone covering 45% of world GDP. However, critics … gains for Germany (3.5%), Europe (3.9%), and the world (1.6%), but that it could also harm third countries …

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

estimation approach, we find that WTO membership has promoted world trade to a larger extent than Rose's results seem to indicate …In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not … zero trade and leaves room for WTO membership to promote trade at the extensive margin of trade. Relying on a Tobit …

What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country ….05% lower in the year 2008 if China had not gained accession to the WTO in 2001 …

trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …