Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a …

theory and recent developments in the economics of information and law. A central conclusion is that in a world where …

and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws on a recent … analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … classification, consistent with both the earlier World Bank database and the current OECD database, enabling for the first time a …

-opening commitments, even though they were not pursuing export interests. The paper also considers the limits to what was achieved by way …

(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …