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Policies Facilitating Firm Adjustment to Globalization

Hoekman, Bernard; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2013

The authors focus on policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization. They briefly review the effects of trade …

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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization

Fran??ois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2012

Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...

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Liberalizing Trade in Services : A Survey

Hoekman, Bernard - 2012

by the World Trade Organization or regional trade agreements, especially the European Union, but an increasing number of …

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Economic Policy Responses to Preference Erosion : From Trade as Aid to Aid for Trade

Hoekman, Bernard; Prowse, Susan - 2012

Trade preferences are a central issue in ongoing efforts to negotiate further multilateral trade liberalization. "Less preferred" countries are increasingly concerned about the discrimination they confront, while "more preferred" developing countries worry that WTO-based liberalization of trade...

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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services

Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - 2012

This paper examines how the applied multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature has moved into quantication of the impacts of greater market access for services. This includes discussion of multi-sector linkages to the service sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and...

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