Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade … policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly correlated with GATT/WTO membership. Trade liberalizations, when … they occur, usually lag GATT entry by many years, and the GATT/WTO often admits countries that are closed and remain closed …

differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …

I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General … covering annual bilateral trade flows between over 175 countries between 1950 and 1999, and estimate the effect of GATT/WTO … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …

perceived to have “a mainly positive or negative influence in the world.” Holding other things constant, a country's exports are … others. I use a standard gravity model of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2013, and an annual survey … economically significant; a one percent net increase in perceived positive influence raises exports by around .8 percent …

variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which …

formally and adduce some empirical support for it. We construct an index of the "income level of a country's exports," document …

Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …