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 …

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 …

, may in the future be relevant to other areas of global trade liberalization. In addition to the Agreement's plurilateral … widely used in other WTO Agreements. Apart from the above, the GPA revision is important for the merging of trade and good …

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 …

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 …

at which countries have committed at the WTO is sufficient to diminish trade policy volatility is an empirical question … commitments ; tariff volatility ; trade policy uncertainty ; World Trade Organization ; trade agreements …

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

As of November 2010, more than 300 regional trade agreements (RTAs) were in force. Approximately two-thirds of them had … the regional level, of a current practice of not using antidumping as a trade policy tool is restricted to a limited … diversion" materializes. -- Regional Trade Agreements ; antidumping ; trade remedies …

regional trade agreements (RTAs) that had been notified to the WTO by November 2010. IP provisions in RTAs have been the … standards. -- Regional Trade Agreements ; Intellectual Property Rights ; WTO ; TRIPS …