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

the rules of the international trading system. They did this in the formation of the WTO, where they were responsible for …

implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying 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 …

Vietnamese firms to the 2007 WTO accession. Our result show that WTO accession is associated with higher probability of exit …