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 …

analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … OECD database. The STPD offers comparable information on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across …. Second, the database contains information not just on core trade policies but also on other increasingly relevant aspects …

new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 … services, respectively. Policy measures are quantified into a Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) following a novel …, consistent and transparent framework. Building on these innovations, the paper identifies patterns of services trade policies …

This paper analyses the results of the financial services negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services … (GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … constructed trade and tariff data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that the AGOA boosted African … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …

Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective … States and China would be better off under this "managed trade" agreement than if the trade war had escalated. However …-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without …

, liberalization of services trade, aided by negotiations under the GATS, is leading to changes in market structure and the pattern of …