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Trading firms and trading costs in services : firm-level analysis

Rouzet, Dorothée; Benz, Sebastian; Spinelli, Francesca - 2017

This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It first describes the...

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Antidumping regional regimes and the multilateral trading system : do regional antidumping regimes make a difference?

Rey, Jean-Daniel - 2012 - Manuscript date: October 2012

application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping … regimes and has been built around the analysis of antidumping provisions in 192 RTAs. This Working Paper first recalls the … RTAs, the Paper identifies two Categories of regional antidumping regimes, and assesses their relationships with the …

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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade

Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015

This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional...

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Deep provisions in regional trade agreements : how multilateral-friendly? ; an overview of OECD findings

Lejárraga, Iza - 2014

Over the past decade, an increasing number of economies have resorted to regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a means to further the market-opening and rule-making agenda. In this context, this paper addresses the question as to whether and how selected elements of RTAs could be used as...

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Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

World Trade Organization - 2007

This paper maps and examines the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy … members. In the case of anti-dumping for example, some provisions increase de minimis volume and dumping margin requirements … and shorten the duration for applying anti-dumping duties relative to the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. In similar fashion …

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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements

Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012 - Manuscript date: September 2012

This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...

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Developing countries in the WTO services negotiations

Marchetti, Juan A. - 2004 - Manuscript date: September 2004

The aim of this paper is to analyse developing countries' participation so far in the current round of services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. The paper analyses developing countries' negotiating positions, as evidenced by their multilateral negotiating proposals; their initial...

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Quantitative evidence on transparency in regional trade agreements

Lejárraga, Iza; Shepherd, Ben - 2013

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical evidence of the political economy determinants of international...

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Multilateralising regionalism : strengthening transparency disciplines in trade

Lejárraga, Iza - 2013

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large...

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Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) : how much further than the GATS?

Roy, Martin (contributor); Marchetti, Juan (contributor); … - 2006

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the...

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