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We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings …
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We review the growing literature on the effects of antidumping, a trade policy that has emerged as the most serious … impediment to international trade. Over the past 25 years countries have increasingly turned to antidumping in order to offer … protection to import-competing industries. Antidumping is a trade policy where the institutional process surrounding the …
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The majority of the world's countries have antidumping (AD) statutes in place, hundreds of AD actions occur annually … its successor, the World Trade Organization. AD's unique characteristics along with its high incidence of use make it a … dumping and antidumping activity, with particular emphasis on the evolution of the literature and the most recent …
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I explore whether the world trading system of the twentieth century can be adapted to address the challenges of the …
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This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and...
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Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...
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We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...
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We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent …
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, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few …
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This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...
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