Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 248
Cover Image
Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061965
Cover Image
Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2014
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056662
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Trade and Competition Policy in the WTO System
Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
This paper surveys the major options that have been proposed concerning a possible agreement on trade-related anti-trust principles and evaluates both their desirability and feasibility. Three criteria are used to evaluate the options: (i) the extent to which they enhance the contestability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073859
Cover Image
Making Trade Agreements Relevant for Poor Countries : Why Dispute Settlement is Not Enough
Bown, Chad P.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal WTO trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the benefits of their participation in international trade agreements. This paper examines the political-economic causes of the failure to challenge poor countries and discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050884
Cover Image
The Doha Round and Preference Erosion : A Symposium
Hoekman, Bernard - 2006
The trade and welfare impacts of multilateral liberalization on individual countries and groups within countries depend on many factors-including the depth of liberalization by trading partners, the extent of countries' own reforms, the responsiveness of investors to changes in relative prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564093
Cover Image
The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO : Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?
Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries that was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045099