This paper proposes a unique overview of trade policies trends since the launch of the Doha Round, based on detailed … data on tariffs and trade covering 130 countries. We show that regionalism has delivered limited effective liberalization … 2013. WTO commitments (1.0 p.p. average cut) and unilateral liberalizations on a most-favored-nation (MFN) basis (1.3 p …

We demonstrate that durable MFN tariff elimination affects trade patterns through several layers, and magnitudes of … effects are sizable. The WTO Information Technology Agreement's (ITA) unique setting allows us to overcome the challenges … associated with identifying effects of non-discriminatory trade policies due to two reasons: (i) ITA constitutes a quasi …

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of … strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue …

Regional trade agreements have proliferated in the past two decades while multilateral trade negotiations have stalled …. Both these agreements are governed by the WTO and have to abide by the non-discriminatory (Most-Favored Nation, MFN) clause … incentive to contribute to the cost of liberalization by signing trade agreements and offering their own market access. I extend …

trade agreement to cover privacy protection. However, countries do have a beggar-thy-neighbor motivation to apply ad tech …

We study the procompetitive effects of trade policies against a foreign oligopoly in a model of vertical product … trade because of a pure rent-extraction effect. However, a nonuniform tariff policy is, in addition, procompetitive and thus … producing low quality and levying a tariff on the country producing high quality. Regional Trade Agreements (RTYs) are examples …

The trade war initiated by the Trump administration is the largest since the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the …. Our results highlight the political salience of the trade war: US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support but foreign … retaliation hurt Trump. In particular, the pro-Trump effects of US trade war tariffs were crucial for Trump crossing the recount …

The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and … or imports. The ensuing WTO dispute raises important issues concerning the WTO-compatibility of subsidy measures. In … can be exempted from complying with National Treatment rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the …

past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify … ante trade frictions. The effects of new FTAs are similarly weaker for pairs with existing agreements already in place. In … addition, we are able to relate asymmetries in FTA effects to each country's ability to influence the other's terms of trade …