surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries …Many different approaches have developed for the evaluation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) and free trade agreements … ability to predict the trade effects of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, the first 'second-generation' FTA of the EU …

use accessions to \Globalisation Clubs" (WTO, OECD, EU), financial liberalisation and an instrument for trade openness to … study the trade-off between efficiency (proxied by real GDP per capita and TFP) and equity (proxied by the labour share of … income and the Gini index of inequality). We find that (i) most of our episodes lead to an increase in trade openness (ii …