To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … at which countries have committed at the WTO is sufficient to diminish trade policy volatility is an empirical question … commitments ; tariff volatility ; trade policy uncertainty ; World Trade Organization ; trade agreements …

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to 2011 at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on …