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The value of the Committee on Agriculture: Mapping Q&As to trade flows

Jackson, Lee Ann; Maggi, Federica; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2020

What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low-income countries participate less than they should in the work of the Committee? How important are issues not covered by notifications? What are the most important issues on which to...

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The value of the Committee on Agriculture : mapping Q&As to trade flows

Jackson, Lee Ann; Maggi, Federica; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2020

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The impact of Mode 4 liberalization on bilateral trade flows

Jansen, Marion; Piermartini, Roberta - 2005

This paper gives insights into the possible trade creating effects of service trade liberalization via Mode 4. In particular we expect that temporary movements of persons, like permanent movements, have the potential to reduce transaction costs for merchandise trade between home and host...

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Natural resources and non-cooperative trade policy

Latina, Joelle; Piermartini, Roberta; Ruta, Michele - 2011

natural resources sectors is generally lower than for overall merchandise trade, while export restrictions are twice as likely … their raw state face, on average, lower duties than in their processed form. In this paper, we discuss how export taxes and … tariff escalation may be the result of an uncooperative trade policy. Specifically, tariff escalation and export taxes can be …

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Timeliness and contract enforceability in intermediate goods trade

Gamberoni, Elisa; Lanz, Rainer; Piermartini, Roberta - 2010

In particular, the ability to export on time is crucial to explain comparative advantage in intermediate goods. These …

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Infrastructure and trade

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Piermartini, Roberta - 2004

infrastructure; (iv) timeliness and access to telecommunication are relatively more important for export competitiveness in the …

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The impact of mode 4 on trade in goods and services

Jansen, Marion; Piermartini, Roberta - 2004

This paper estimates the impact of liberalization of temporary movements of individual service suppliers on trade in goods and services. In particular, the paper looks at the impact of the so-called forth mode to provide a service on trade in services under the other three modes: cross-border...

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How WTO commitments tame uncertainty

Jakubik, Adam; Piermartini, Roberta - 2019

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'...

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On the effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade: They are positive and large after all

Larch, Mario; Monteiro, José-Antonio; Piermartini, Roberta - 2019

We capitalize on the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature to revisit the question of whether and how much does GATT/WTO membership affect international trade. We are the first to capture the non-discriminatory nature of GATT/WTO commitments by measuring the effects...

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On the Effects of GATT/WTO Membership on Trade: They Are Positive and Large after All

Larch, Mario; Monteiro, José-Antonio; Piermartini, Roberta - 2019

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