regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations … WTO legal framework in light of our results, arguing that it does a reasonably thorough job of policing regulatory …

This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight …

Despite the important roel played by GATT in the world economy, economist have nto developed a unified theoretical …

GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …

export subsidies can be given a world-wide efficiency rationale. In this paper, we offer one such treatment in the context of … export subsidy programs can lead to inefficiencies, and importing countries and the world as a whole can be better off when …Why do governments seek restrictions on the use of export subsidies through reciprocal trade agreements such as GATT …

How should the issue of domestic labor standards be handled in the GATT/ WTO? This question is part of a broader debate … trading partner is then free to issue a tariff response to stabilize export prices. We show that both approaches deliver govts …

Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes … offer evidence that the predictions of our model are consistent with WTO trade dispute data, and we take a first step …