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Jakubik, Adam; Piermartini, Roberta - 2019 - Manuscript date: 24 April 2019

This paper studies how WTO rules and flexibilities shape its members' trade policy responses to import shocks. Guided by a cost benefit analysis model and using a unique database of tariff bindings for all WTO countries over the 1996-2011 period, we show that WTO commitments affect members'...

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Trade remedy provisions in regoinal trade agreements

Teh, Robert (contributor) - 2007

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Antidumping regional regimes and the multilateral trading system : do regional antidumping regimes make a difference?

Rey, Jean-Daniel - 2012 - Manuscript date: October 2012

application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping … regimes and has been built around the analysis of antidumping provisions in 192 RTAs. This Working Paper first recalls the … RTAs, the Paper identifies two Categories of regional antidumping regimes, and assesses their relationships with the …

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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements

Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012 - Manuscript date: September 2012

This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...

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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions

Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014

A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...

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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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Trade issues affecting disaster response

Roberts, Michael; Mohammed, Nazia - 2017 - Manuscript date: March 2017

The frequency, severity and economic impact of natural disasters are growing. Import surges resulting from disaster-response efforts can highlight underlying structural failings in the border clearance regimes of disaster-affected countries. Relief supplies, specialized personnel and agencies...

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Georgia's post-accession structural reform challenges

Arveladze, G.; Smeets, Maarten - 2017 - Manuscript date: May 2017

The process leading to WTO accession is complex, requires solid domestic coordination mechanisms in the acceding country, a rethinking of its economic and trade policies and significant domestic structural reforms. It often implies the creation of new institutions designed to coordinate and...

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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade

Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019

Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...

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