discusses how the level of development influences the political equilibrium. We also analyze the relation between trade and the …This paper presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy model. We use the model to derive …-standardization?or `over-standardization?results, and which standards can be labeled as (producer)protectionist measures. …

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 …

society was different there was no single model of development to be adopted or which could be imposed successfully by one … nation-state on others, either through force or through foreign aid programs. Nor could development be promoted simply by …

From marginal relevance, the trade and business relations between Australia and Latin America have grown during the … partners in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico) experienced the impact of processes of trade liberalisation …

possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …

EU-China economic interactions became more and more frequent in the past decades, nowadays EU and China are main trade … interactions, trade and investment flows as well as barriers to trade and investment. Findings show that EU-China close … relationship is particularly based on goods trade especially on intra-industrial trade of manufacturing industrial products, and …

paralysis of the Doha Round, the proliferation of preferential trade agreement and the launching of mega-regional trade … negotiations have encouraged the debate about the governance of international trade. In contrast to a benign interpretation of the … relationship between ?XXI century regionalism? and the multilateral trade regime, we argue that there is a remarkable continuity …

, they cannot explain the post-1929 increase in trade costs. Protectionism seems the most likely alternative candidate. …

Do the services commitments that countries have made in their post-Uruguay Round regional trade agreements (RTAs …) indicate the types of concessions that they would be willing to multilateralise in the General Agreement on Trade in Services … general, and especially the specific commitments and concessions that countries make on trade in services. It examines in …