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 …

substantial benefits that may be associated with the liberalization of services trade, the GATS has obviously not yet lived up to … regimes and, thus, potentially higher gains from liberalization than in merchandise trade, to undertake or envisage …

essential role of services for economic development; the high costs imposed by trade protection; the benefits of liberalization …

The linkages between trade and resource mobilization are complex and not well defined in theory. To what extent does … trade policy affect resource mobilization and what are the mechanisms? We argue that trade policy is a key factor of … influencing the domestic fundamental balance between aggregate savings and investment. The main effect of trade policy on resource …

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to … most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains … explaining why countries choose to settle and enforce their trade disputes with the help of an impartial third party, a “trade …

This paper explores the role that quality of infrastructure has on a country's trade performance, estimating a gravity … clearance) on total bilateral trade and on trade in the automotive, clothing and textile sectors. In order to obtain unbiased … of bilateral flows, have a significant negative impact on trade; (ii) quality of infrastructure is an important …

competitiveness perspectives that fuses climate change and trade regimes in potentially problematic ways as governments contemplate … trade actions to manage the environmental and/or competitiveness consequences of differential climate change policies. On … the trade side of this relationship, we have the reality that the GATT/WTO rules were not originally drafted to …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

This paper argues that different types of trade liberalization { multilateral versus regional { may lead to different R …&D and productivity levels of firms. Trade agreements between countries are modelled with a network: nodes represent … countries and a link between the nodes indicates the existence of a trade agreement. In this framework, the multilateral trade …