their use of the DSM, especially when their use of the mechanism is compared to their participation in world trade. This …

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 …

the regional level, of a current practice of not using antidumping as a trade policy tool is restricted to a limited …As of November 2010, more than 300 regional trade agreements (RTAs) were in force. Approximately two-thirds of them had … application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping …

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have become an indelible feature of the international trading landscape. Most, if not … (partial scope agreement, free trade agreement or customs union), and (v) configuration (bilateral or plurilateral). Second, we …

-reducing trade skirmishes. The DSP is interpreted as an impartial arbitrator that announces its opinion about the state of the world … with the introduction of the DSP, in order to maintain the incentive-compatibility of trade agreements. The model implies … that trade agreements under the WTO lead to fewer trade skirmishes but this effect does not necessarily result in higher …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

negotiations result in participants exchanging the best commitments they have so far undertaken in their preferential trade …

regional trade agreements (RTAs) that had been notified to the WTO by November 2010. IP provisions in RTAs have been the …