The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally …

Professional services matter for development in East Africa. Business services, including professional services, are …, trade policy, and labor mobility at both the national and international levels. …

There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon … prices. A key factor affecting the impact of these taxes is whether they are based on the carbon content of imports or the … merchandise imports would address competitiveness and environmental concerns in high income countries but with serious …

There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon …, potentially creating pressure for trade action. A key factor affecting the impact of any border taxes is whether they are based on … the carbon content of imports or the carbon content of domestic production. The paper's quantitative estimates suggest …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … causal impact of these changes, we use a triple-differences regression and 26 years of newly constructed trade and tariff …

Every major regional trade agreement now has a services dimension. Is trade in services so different that we need to …

As each new round of multilateral trade negotiations approaches, there is a demand for a negotiating rule that would …

East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that … global trade giant, which is fundamentally altering the trading patterns and opportunities of its neighbors. The second is … the asymmetric implementation of national reform – in goods trade and investment versus services – which is affecting the …

, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export … to more different destination countries, and they export a higher share of their total sales in three out of five …

investigate for the first time the links between the extensive margins of imports (the number of imported goods and the number of …