Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes … offer evidence that the predictions of our model are consistent with WTO trade dispute data, and we take a first step …

question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied … GATT/WTO, and we argue that an economic perspective can go a long way toward revealing a consistent logic to the inclusion …

Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes … offer evidence that the predictions of our model are consistent with WTO trade dispute data, and we take a first step …

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of … preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried … economics literature on international trade agreements and argue on this basis that the WTO is not passé. Rather, and subject to …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent … developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its … central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we identify key unresolved issues …

acquire private information over time. In this context, we provide equilibrium interpretations of GATT/WTO negotiations … regarding upper bounds on applied tariffs and GATT/WTO escape clauses. We find that governments achieve greater welfare when … also provides a novel interpretation of a feature of the WTO Safeguard Agreement, under which escape clause actions cannot …

International disputes over subsidies are increasingly disrupting the world trading system. The creation of the WTO was … agricultural subsidies, an issue which continues to plague the ongoing Doha Round of WTO negotiations. Ongoing disputes over … subsidies that violate existing WTO rules have led to the largest amount of authorized retaliation in GATT/WTO history. Yet the …

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of … preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried … economics literature on international trade agreements and argue on this basis that the WTO is not passé. Rather, and subject to …