Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports … persistent characteristic of trade throughout the extended time period that we study: in general only 40 percent of trade flows … observed explanatory variables – which in turn influence the hazard of trade flows dying in a negative direction – imply that …

distance’ in international trade. We find significant differences between results obtained with the proposed estimator and …

Trading nations exchange tariff concessions in the context of trade liberalizing rounds. Tariffs, nonetheless, are not … international community. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between trade and environment. The purpose of this study is to …

extent of trade conflict resolution within the WTO. Both the SPS and TBT Committees address a significant number of ‘specific … trade concerns’ (STCs) that in the overwhelming majority of cases do not become formal disputes. The STCs address … appears as if Committee work on STCs significantly helps defuse potential trade frictions concerning national policies in the …

role of NT in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from the perspective of economic theory. Having established …, here we focus on the understanding of the key terms implementing the purpose of NT by GATT and World Trade Organization …

This study is part of The American Law Institute (ALI) project Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law. The … project aims to analyze the central instrument in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement for the regulation of trade in … goods – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT). The present study is one of two background studies for this …

Despite the strong pace of globalization, the distance effect on trade is persistent or even growing over time (Disdier … significantly reducing the downward bias from omitting zero trade flows than it reduces the upward bias from omitting the number of … heterogeneous exporting firms. Furthermore, we show that including zero-trade flows cannot solve the distance puzzle when using HMR …