This paper investigates when trade facilitation reform should be undertaken at the regional level. First, looking at … economies and positive externalities of trade facilitation reform. Second, because trade facilitation policies need to address … delivering reform is crucial. The lessons are that regional trade agreements offer good prospects of comprehensive and effective …

Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, the authors examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has … affected trade with nonmembers and external tariffs facing nonmembers. First, the paper examines the effect of preferential and …

, under standard import price and substitution elasticity assumptions, eliminating tariffs on all imports from the European …

We examine the interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory … suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 … OECD countries vis-agrave;-vis 69 exporters. Competition in services affects the volume of goods trade while the market …

We determine how time delays affect international trade, using newly-collected World Bank data on the days it takes to … reduces trade by at least 1 percent. Put differently, each day is equivalent to a country distancing itself from its trade …

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing … inequality. This yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality … within a broad general equilibrium framework. In addition, we can separate the efficiency and equity effects of tariffs on …

countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The … scope for erosion estimated by modeling full elimination of OECD tariffs, and hence full most-favored-nation liberalization …

redistribution. Will the current trade negotiations under the Doha Round reinforce or curb this trend? We apply a CGE microsimulation … this scenario. Further investigations indicate that more ambitious world trade liberalization leads to greater poverty … alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts …