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Services Trade and Policy
Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - 2010
A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s. 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/10012562599
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services : Doomed to Fail? Does It Matter?
Hoekman, Bernard - 2008
Little progress has been made to date in using the GATS framework to lock-in already implemented unilateral reforms … policy reforms. All these factors play a role in reducing the scope for the GATS to be an effective instrument to help … strengthen the relevance of the GATS as an instrument of multilateral cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012562679
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Services trade liberalization and regulatory reform : Re-invigorating international cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2011
place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394811
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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976230
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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-invigorating International Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551023
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2012
as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395215
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975528
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard; Martin, Will - 2012
as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550950
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : an Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2012
World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247797
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Multilateral Trade Cooperation : What Next?
Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple bargaining model of international negotiations, which can be used for understanding the Doha Round of talks. Using this, we distil what we regard as the major potential explanations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708891