The WTO faces an increasing burden of arbitrating trade disputes between WTO member states. The disputes are economically complex and often lead to rulings that require changes in Members' economic policies. This paper provides a positive and normative analysis of a previously unaddressed...

WTO arbitrators rely on economics to establish the permissible retaliation limits authorized by the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) which arguably serves to enforce the overall agreement. We examine how theoretical and quantitative economic analysis has and can be used in this stage of...

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 to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and...