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Multilateral approaches to market access negotiations

Laird, Samuel - 1997 - Manuscript date: May 1998

Market access negotiations in merchandise trade at the multilateral level cover tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs). While tariffs have been substantially reduced in earlier rounds, they remain high in certain areas and further reductions involve a number of complex technical issues. Some...

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The new liberalism : trade policy developments in emerging markets

Drábek, Zdeněk; Laird, Samuel - 1997 - Manuscript date: January, 1997

security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change …

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WTO rules and good practice on export policy

Laird, Samuel - 1997 - Manuscript date: March, 1997

The WTO has increased international disciplines on export policy, but there is still scope for the use of export …

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Financial services trade, capital flows, and financial stability

Kono, Masamichi; Schuknecht, Ludger - 1999 - First draft: 11/1998, Revised: 2/1999

This study argues that trade policies regarding financial services are an important - but typically neglected - determinant of capital flows and financial sector stability. Financial services trade liberalisation which promotes the use of a broad spectrum of financial instruments and allows the...

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The EU model and Turkey : a case for thanksgiving?

Hartler, Christina; Laird, Samuel - 1999 - Manuscript date: January 1999

The EU model is being progressively transmitted to other economies through expansion of membership and various preferential agreements. Since EU trade polices have been criticised in a number of respects, this could be a matter of concern to the international community. However, in the case of...

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A multilateral agreement on investment : convincing the sceptics

Drábek, Zdeněk - 1998 - Manuscript date: February, 1998

Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD countries. Perhaps even more has been said by the critics of those who would like to see an agreement of this kind extended among other countries. There has indeed been a great...

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Transition economies, business and the WTO

Laird, Samuel - 1997 - Manuscript date: May 1998

private sector. This is consistent with the market-oriented approach of the WTO. Remaining state agencies and enterprises will …

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Why are trade agreements more attractive in the presence of foreign direct investment?

Olarreaga, Marcelo - 1998 - Manuscript date: June, 1998, Revised version: June 1998

This paper argues that interests of nationals and owners of home-based foreign capital in the formation of a Trade Agreements (TA) are not antagonistic, except under rather particular assumptions on initial tariffs among potential members. Further, if initial tariffs are endogenously determined...

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