Two of the most important trade policy developments to take place since the 1980s are the expansion of preferential … trade agreements and temporary trade barriers, such as antidumping, safeguards, and countervailing duties. Despite the … empirical importance of preferential trade agreements and temporary trade barriers and the common feature that each can …

to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that eventually become subject to WTO litigation …This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the ‘trade’ that … countries fight about under WTO dispute settlement. It characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes …

versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger interpretation of the WTO principle of reciprocity to provide a … political-legal-economic decision on a WTO-consistent counterfactual to use to implement the formula, and iii) the quantitative … methods they use to necessarily construct the (unobserved) WTO-consistent counterfactual. We examine not only the arbitrations …

major tool in the trade policy arsenal. We examine these concerns in light of important ways in which the world economy and … international trade, but also more extensive links among suppliers and consumers through multinational firm activity and vertical …

Suppose that when addressing the question of “what’s left for the WTO?,” negotiators relied not on the agenda … established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This … paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three specific areas in which it is frequently alleged that …

The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …

versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger interpretation of the WTO principle of reciprocity to provide a … political-legal-economic decision on a WTO-consistent counterfactual to use to implement the formula, and iii) the quantitative … methods they use to necessarily construct the (unobserved) WTO-consistent counterfactual. We examine not only the arbitrations …

theory guides our empirical assessment. We use instrumental variables to estimate the model on trade volume outcomes from WTO …This paper examines implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the … enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, we model formal trade dispute …

Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal WTO trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the … function of the WTO is important to make trade agreements more relevant to trade constituencies in developing countries. While … our focus is on the WTO system, our arguments also apply to reciprocal North-South trade agreements. …

Suppose that when addressing the question of "what’s left for the WTO?," negotiators relied not on the agenda … established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This … paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three specific areas in which it is frequently alleged that …