Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the … World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … extract and enforce trade concessions from larger developed economies even though as a group they would be able to do so. We …

for infant industry protection does not exist. Moreover, compelling empirical evidence linking trade openness causally to … trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist … orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated book The Wealth of Nations, free trade critics have repeatedly challenged …

Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are … designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable … (CBAM), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD), Level Playing Field Provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation …

depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the …

confirms that using openness and imports indexes to proxy for trade yields more robust results compared to the use of export … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness … approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade …

We analyze the impact of the EU unilateral trade preferences on both the intensive and the extensive margin of trade …. Using a tobit and probit estimation we find that the impact of unilateral trade preferences on both margins is strictly … linked to the sector under analysis and to the type of preferences a country benefits from. In particular, we find an anti-diversification …

This paper assesses how regional trade agreements (RTAs) impact growth volatility on a worldwide sample of 170 … countries with data spanning the period 1978-2012.Notwithstanding concerns that trade openness through RTAs can heighten … benefits outweigh the costs as RTAs are consistently associated with lower growth volatility, after controlling for trade …

) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis … a positive effect on LDCs' export performance on primary products; the average effect on manufacturing exports has been … statistically nil. In the short and medium term, this decision has exerted a positive effect on LDCs' merchandise export performance …

the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on … to diversify, options for pacing development, and appropriate performance measures. …

In this paper, the literature on trade and development is surveyed, especially that regarding the role of … complementarities associated with trade infrastructure. The empirical literature shows that, on average, trade causes growth, but the … investment in soft and hard infrastructure has an unambiguously positive impact on trade flows, the theoretical literature argues …