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On the effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade : they are positive and large after all

Larch, Mario; Monteiro, José-Antonio; Piermartini, Roberta - 2019 - Manuscript date: 28 May 2019

whether and how much does GATT/WTO membership affect international trade. We are the first to capture the non …-discriminatory nature of GATT/WTO commitments by measuring the effects of GATT/WTO membership on international trade relative to domestic … sales. These unilateral effects of GATT/WTO membership are found to be large, positive, and statistically significant. We …

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General equilibrium trade policy analysis with structural gravity

Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016 - Manuscript date: June 2016

We try to achieve this objective in four steps. First, we focus on the original Armington CES gravity model, as a representative framework for a large class of GE models, to offer a deep analysis of the structural relationships underlying the general equilibrium gravity system, and how they can...

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Estimating trade policy effects with structural gravity

Piermartini, Roberta; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016 - Manuscript date: July 14, 2016

Then, we integrate the latest developments in the empirical gravity literature and we offer six recommendations to obtain reliable partial equilibrium estimates of the effects of bilateral and non-discriminatory trade policies within the same comprehensive, and theoretically-consistent...

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Applied services trade policy : a guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Borchert, Ingo; Gootiiz, Batshur; Magdeleine, Joscelyn; … - 2019 - Manuscript date: 5 December 2019

and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws on a recent … analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … classification, consistent with both the earlier World Bank database and the current OECD database, enabling for the first time a …

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