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Wolfe, Robert; Tu, Xinquan; Hoekman, Bernard - 2022

China, the EU and the U.S. are the world’s largest traders, and many of the tensions in the trading system arise in the relations among them. Our premise is that reforming WTO is a necessary condition for the organization to be a more salient forum for the three large economies to address...

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China and WTO Reform

Hoekman, Bernard; Tu, Xinquan; Wolfe, Robert - 2022

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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform: Re-invigorating International Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Trade and investment in services is inhibited by a range of policy restrictions, but the best offers so far in the Doha negotiations are on average twice as restrictive as actual policy. They will generate no additional market opening. Regulatory concerns help explain the limited progress. We...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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The Political Economy of Services Trade Liberalization: A Case for International Regulatory Cooperation?

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services liberalization commitments. This paper identifies and discusses five hypotheses that may explain the absence of dynamism: (i) technological changes allow ever more services to be...

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Trade in Services, Trade Agreements and Economic Development: A Survey of the Literature

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Since the mid 1980s a substantial amount of research has been undertaken on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU, but an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of services sector liberalization. This paper surveys the...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

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The political economy of services trade liberalization: a case for international regulatory cooperation?

Sapir, Andre; Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2007

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO on expanding and deepening the coverage of services liberalization commitments. This paper identifies and discusses five hypotheses that may explain the absence of dynamism: (i) technological changes allowing ever more services to be...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008590494

Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502579

Tentative First Steps: An Assessment of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Services

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a landmark in terms of creating multilateral disciplines in virgin … transactions in services. There are two key issues that should be addressed in evaluating the GATS. First, what does it do to bind … negotiations? This paper concludes that the GATS does not score very high on either dimension. A number of suggestions are made to …

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