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(When) does tit-for-tat diplomacy in trade policy pay off?
Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel - 2012
In international relations, short-run incentives for non-cooperation often dominate. Yet, (external) institutions for enforcing cooperation are hampered by national sovereignty, supposedly strengthening the role of selfenforcing mechanisms. This paper examines their scope with a focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374353
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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate intoworsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization.We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346487
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General Equilibrium Analysis of DDA Trade Liberalization : Assessment of Alternative Scenarios
Choi, Nakgyoon - 2014
negotiations by making some mutual concessions and deal with contentious issues yet to be agreed. The simulation results of this … paper, which lay between those of the previous literature, indicate that the DDA negotiations will boost the global economy … to a substantial degree. It reveals that the world GDP effects will amount to US$ 49.9~186.2 billion (0.12~0.45%) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048243
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Estimating a Model of Settlement Bargaining in the World Trade Organization
Beshkar, Mostafa - 2012
policy adjustment, rather than cash payments, as a means of compensation in their settlement negotiations. A key theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206680
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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2014
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056662
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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061965
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Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?
Rose, Andrew K. - 2002
This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469358
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Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2022
This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308333
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Distortion Effects of Export Quota Policy : An Analysis of the China-Raw Materials Dispute
Charlier, Christophe - 2014
The China-Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046042
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Preferential Trade Liberalization and the Path-Dependent Expansion of Exports
Borchert, Ingo - 2007
In the presence of sunk costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization may have a prolonged, dynamic effect on the pattern of a beneficiary country's exports. In particular, preferential tariff liberalization might trigger a geographic spread of exports to third markets outside the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052025