prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization …

from the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 2000. Weighted trade policy proxy for each congressional district …

-Ohlin setting entails differentiated trade policies, with a party proposing a high tariff, and the other one a low one. The basic … heterogeneous behavior of parties, protectionism and pro-trade, is endogenously decided, rather than a prior assumed in previous …

dispute settlement under the GATT 1947 had dealt with in nearly five decades. The system is perceived, both by practitioners …, WTO Members and adjudicating bodies managed to develop the system further through evolving practice. While this approach … decisionmaking in the WTO (as incorporated in the DSU) and nearly blocked political decisionmaking evolves into a serious challenge …

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …

expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …

There is a considerable body of analysis available that aims to quantify the economic and trade effects of textile and …. Different tools and approaches have thereby been used to evaluate the impacts of textile trade reform at the regional or global … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …

trade deregulation. At the same time, the need of government in providing property rights is emphasized. · Hope this report …

Increasingly, in regional agreements, large economies, e.g. U.S. and E.U., offer lower trade barriers in exchange for … multilateral trade liberalization? We show that, even in the absence of trade creation or diversion, such preferential agreements … bargaining power. The result is due to current exceptions in the WTO to the most-favorite-nation rule which allow for lower than …