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Bown, Chad P. - 2018

Suppose that when addressing the question of ?what?s left for the WTO?,? tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …

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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym - 2016

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

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Economic Growth, Convergence, and World Food Demand and Supply

Fukase, Emiko - 2017

percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …

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The Gatt's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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Is the WTO Passe?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2018

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success?

Laborde, David - 2017

This paper views tariff-cutting formulas as a potential solution to the free-rider problem that arises when market opening is negotiated bilaterally and extended on a most-favored-nation basis. The negotiators in the Doha Agenda chose formulas that are ideal from an economic efficiency viewpoint...

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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …

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