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 transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

heightened uncertainty about supply availability together with friction among trading partners. Poor transparency can amplify and … compound the effects of restrictive trade policies. This paper explores the issue of transparency with respect to the use of … available. After explaining how transparency is operationalised in the conduct of trade policy and what its benefits are for …

obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how … three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) incorporate transparency into their regulatory regimes: CITES (endangered … of regulatory transparency to the success of these regimes, we use an analytic framework based on three major …

policy, transparency, simplification …

the Inventory research, about policy transparency. What information about use of export restrictions do governments …