multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …

A new “Ministerial” of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will be held in Geneva 15-17 December 2011. Usually, such …. The achievement of this ministerial will be more modest. The current Round of multilateral trade negotiations that was … infructuous negotiations. Even an interim agreement dedicated to poor countries and trade facilitation is out of reach. …

the collapse of world trade during the recent crisis. The decrease of world demand has affected the imports of high …

The brutal drop in global trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first months of 2009 has been the subject of … of trade during recent years and subsequently led to the current downturn. The globalisation process is thus being held … responsible for the collapse of trade. We will show, based on a simulation carried out using the MIRAGE model, that the intensity …

We examine the endogenous formation of trade blocs when markets are characterized by imperfect competition and … simple model of intra-industry trade between three ex-ante symmetric countries, we find that, while 'pure' customs unions … - entailing tariff cooperation only - are stepping stones towards global free trade, 'impure' customs unions - involving the …