The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This … compulsory and binding two-level mechanism for the adjudication of disputes between WTO Members is the most active among … WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set. The data set covers all 426 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a …

Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal WTO trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the …. Given the weak incentives to enforce WTO rules and disciplines against small and poor members, bolstering the transparency … function of the WTO is important to make trade agreements more relevant to trade constituencies in developing countries. While …

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2 … of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request …

complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on … claims made in each WTO dispute between 1995 and 2006, as well as a rough classification as to whether each specific claim …

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing …

theory guides our empirical assessment. We use instrumental variables to estimate the model on trade volume outcomes from WTO …

restrictions. The WTO provides a general prohibition on quantitative export restrictions but the broad and, at times, ambiguous … exceptions somewhat vitiate the ban. Moreover, export taxes are not explicitly forbidden in the WTO. This study suggests that … there are a number of ways by which WTO disciplines could benefit from the approaches found in some RTAs in the area of …

outcomes from WTO disputes over 1995-2009. Our evidence is consistent with theoretical predictions that larger import volume …