, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the … at how WTO procedures have allowed producer protection in the guise of social benefit. …

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 …

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …

whether and how much does GATT/WTO membership affect international trade. We are the first to capture the non …-discriminatory nature of GATT/WTO commitments by measuring the effects of GATT/WTO membership on international trade relative to domestic … sales. These unilateral effects of GATT/WTO membership are found to be large, positive, and statistically significant. We …

export price data combined with data on 32 WTO (World Trade Organization) accessions by developing countries and hundreds of …This paper uncovers new stylized facts on the relation between economic integration and world trade prices. Using … increase in export prices of differentiated goods. For WTO, this effect is captured by the developing countries that were …

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

We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of … raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the WTO. By using specific trade concerns to capture the degree of … restrictiveness of product standards we focus only on standards that are perceived as a barrier to trade. We analyse their effects on …

) Agreement within the GATT/WTO system. -- trade agreements ; trade policy credibility ; subsidy rules ; GATT/WTO … framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its …