security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change …

provisions under the World Trade Organization (WTO) which in turn resulted in a tremendous impact on the ambitious Agreement on … facilitation was exclusively to serve the needs of the developed world, where the latter could, as a result of these measures gain … a better access to the markets of the developing world. However, trade facilitation in emerging economies could witness …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …

Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures … notifications to the World Trade Organization and complementary information provided by the Temporary Trade Barriers Database, we … the WTO's service in providing transparency over members' trade policies. …

framework of the World Trade Organization, which currently does not allow environmental challenges to be tackled effectively. …

. The World Trade Organization (WTO) still has important assets: to convene/service meetings and to settle trade disputes …. If the WTO transforms its role from trade liberalisation forum into an institution which supervises and administers …

implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well … as semi-parametric methods, we find that countries joining the WTO experience a decline in revenues from import duties … taxes. Although triggered by WTO accession, the shift towards consumption taxes, in particular to VAT, typically takes place …

We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and …