review the limited progress achieved to date in the WTO and major regional agreements on services and possible explanations …

Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for 'variable geometry' in the WTO. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …

by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade … barriers by the United States following the failure by the EU to comply with an adverse ruling by the WTO regarding its import … WTO-illegal protection, at the expense of a set of EU exporters, including Fedon, that were hit by US countermeasures. By …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …

the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We report that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms’ financial health, borrowing ratio and export … position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit during the crisis. We also find that the sensitivity of export exit …

most recent financial crisis, estimating models for export market participation decisions and firm growth and survival. The … results indicate that financial variables are highly important in predicting export market entry, especially in the midst of …

Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms’ financial health, borrowing ratio and export … position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit during the crisis. We also find that the sensitivity of export exit …

participation in the export market. …