Over the past months, it has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda … substantial benefits that may be associated with the liberalization of services trade, the GATS has obviously not yet lived up to … ambitious expectations. For example, on average across all WTO Members, only one-third of all services sectors have been …

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 …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the paper reviews the commitments undertaken by 29 WTO Members …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 …

Realistic estimates of mode 4 trade are virtually non-existent. Based on the GATS legal definition, the paper … balance of payments transactions in individual services sectors for estimating the value of this trade. Given the complexity … consumers), it provides simplifying assumptions that help build these measures of mode 4 trade in services. The paper recognizes …

This paper gives insights into the possible trade creating effects of service trade liberalization via Mode 4. In … costs for merchandise trade between home and host country. Exploiting data on H-1B beneficiaries from different origins in … the United States and using a gravity model of trade, we find significantly positive effects of temporary movements of …

Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December …We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation … 2013 - we show that trade facilitation in a given exporting country is positively correlated with the number of products …