Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to 2011 at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to 2011 at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … at which countries have committed at the WTO is sufficient to diminish trade policy volatility is an empirical question … commitments ; tariff volatility ; trade policy uncertainty ; World Trade Organization ; trade agreements …

What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low … building and analysing a new database. WTO regular bodies and the Secretariat collect information on measures notified and …

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to -2011- at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …

' water. Our results show that trade policy uncertainty is an important barrier to export. On average the elimination of water … increases the probability of exporting by 12 percent. A one percent decrease of water also increases export volumes by one …

This paper studies how WTO rules and flexibilities shape its members' trade policy responses to import shocks. Guided … by a cost benefit analysis model and using a unique database of tariff bindings for all WTO countries over the 1996 …-2011 period, we show that WTO commitments affect members' trade policy. More stringent bindings reduce the likelihood of …