Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation … and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented …. Under either alternative, standards can be found that increase welfare in both regions. The analysis integrates the choice …

and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can … be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot game suggest that standards achieve initial convergence in terms …' qualities in the previous period determine their costs. In an N-period game, quality standards will in fact lead to convergence …

International standards have the potential to both promote and hinder international trade. Yet empirical scholarship on … the standards-trade relationship has been held up due to some methodological challenges: measurement problems, varied … standard on the country-pair trade flows between 91 nations over the 1995-2005 period. To deal with these challenges, we …

Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade … waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important …-security issues such as trade. A dearth of popular awareness on trade-related activities between India and Pakistan may limit the …

Though economic relations between India and Korea have been strengthening, the current size of trade and investment … this context, the present paper analyses trade and investment relations and explores future areas of potential co …-operation between India and Korea. We find that the increase in merchandise trade between the two countries has been mainly because of …

of special economic zone schemes, which prevent replication of 'best practice' in special economic zone development and …