Following the onset of the financial crisis in September 2008 and the subsequent “Great Trade Collapse” (Baldwin 2009 …), many countries actively used trade policy instruments as part of their response to the global recession. Governments … pursued a mix of trade liberalization, trade promotion, and trade restrictions. The choice of trade policy has varied, with …

is to reduce trade costs between China and partner countries, in part by helping to integrate regional markets. The large …

The current postcrisis environment—and fragile economic recovery—increases the importance of aid for trade. Global … identifies four options to enhance the effectiveness of the multilateral aid for trade initiative: (i) expanding market access … identify good practices in domestic regulation of service markets and other “behind-the-border” trade-related policies; (iii …

sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and investment (generally with a mix of firm surveys, price comparisons, and … are highlighted. The first is identification of how trade in services takes place and how market access is therefore …

sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and investment (generally with a mix of firm surveys, price comparisons, and … are highlighted. The first is identification of how trade in services takes place and how market access is therefore …

Existing research generally finds weak positive effects of aid for trade (AfT) on aggregate merchandise trade of … recipients once endogeneity in the AfT-trade relationship is accounted for. In this paper, we confirm weak findings for both … aggregate merchandise and services trade of recipients, using GMM and IV estimations. Moreover, estimates lose statistical …

The empirical literature on aid for trade (AfT) mainly considers its effects on merchandise trade and investment. In … this paper we examine the relationship between AfT and trade in services as well as trade in goods over 2002-2015 in both … aggregate and bilateral analysis. We observe complementarities between services AfT and merchandise trade, reflecting the fact …

, as well both measuring barriers to trade and investment (generally with a mix of firm surveys, price comparisons and … are highlighted: (i) identification of how trade in services takes place and how market access is therefore affected by …

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of distinct national markets linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …