This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research. …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research. -- trade agreements ; multilateralism …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

This paper documents the novel fact that Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) decrease bilateral trade imbalances as … measured by conventional measure of the net export share in gross trade. While on average an RTA decreases bilateral trade … imbalance by 7%, greater trade integration through a deeper RTA is associated with a reduction of up to 50% among the sample of …

Over the past decade, an increasing number of economies have resorted to regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a means to …

The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But … regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at … of attention in multilateral trade agreements and negotiations as the elimination of import tariffs and quantitative …

In this paper we consider the trade creating effects of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) for a large sample of …