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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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Trade policy implications of a changing world: Tariffs and import market power

Jakubik, Adam; Keck, Alexander; Piermartini, Roberta - 2022

Economic theory suggests that countries' tariff commitments in trade agreements reflect their import market power at the time of negotiations. However, as countries grow, their market power in different sectors can change in unforeseen ways and their commitments may no longer reflect changed...

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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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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade

Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015

' 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 …

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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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