consumption world wide. Two effects are at issue: a utility loss from forgone consumption and a utility gain from lowered … low wage rapidly growing countries in the BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and the groups of countries as a sub …

This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with …

of their output to enjoy a wide array of incentives – a practice prohibited by the World Trade Organization's Agreement … time in the SEZ of the Dominican Republic - a reform driven by external commitments to comply with WTO disciplines on … trade transactions from the period 2006 to 2014, we find that making the Dominican SEZ regime WTO-compliant made SEZ more …

) Agreement within the GATT/WTO system …

penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade …

the “coherence gap” in global governance. This paper examines the contribution that the WTO can make in its three areas of … argument that could be made for the use of WTO-triggered trade actions to enforce cooperative behaviour towards rebalancing …

implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well … as semi-parametric methods, we find that countries joining the WTO experience a decline in revenues from import duties … taxes. Although triggered by WTO accession, the shift towards consumption taxes, in particular to VAT, typically takes place …

In 2009, Russia introduced a reform that changed the admissions process in all universities. Before 2009, admission …