Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well … before trade liberalization commitments result in declining tariff revenues. …

protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Ten years of trade monitoring later, and notwithstanding widespread anti-trade … trade related developments associated with the global financial crisis. When G20 Leaders met in London in early 2009 they … certain trade restrictive policy measures, the overall reality has been less alarmist. The paper will provide an introduction …

Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should … social benefit and producer protection. Inefficiency and distributional effects are consistent with producerprotecting trade …

protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Since then, 22 G20 reports and 24 WTO-wide reports have been published. The … monitor the trade-related developments associated with the crisis. Meeting in London in early 2009, the G20 Leaders mandated … paper will introduce the WTO Trade Monitoring exercise. It will show how the idea and the principles behind the current …

paper examines their scope with a focus on contingent protection aka tit-for-tat in trade policy. By highlighting various … average more liberal trade regimes. …

paper examines their scope with a focus on contingent protection aka tit-for-tat in trade policy. By highlighting various … average more liberal trade regimes. -- Int. Political Economy ; Trade Policy Conflicts ; Tit-for-Tat ; WTO Dispute Settlement …

international trade agreements. This has led to the emergence of a theoretical literature addressing the integration of perfectly … observable domestic policy into trade agreements. However, the assumption that domestic policy is perfectly observable is … trade barriers. In this paper, we model international coordination over trade and domestic policy when domestic policy is …

We show that new trade restrictions implemented since the onset of the global financial crisis have had — in the … limited products targeted — a strong distortionary impact on trade. Their aggregate impact is modest, however, as most … countries have resisted a widespread resort to protectionism. Looking ahead, sustained high unemployment, uneven growth, and an …

” protectionism merely by considering posterior trade impacts. The determinants of these regulations matter. This paper uses members … substantial rise in non-tariff barriers to trade. Many commentators have drawn a causal link between these two phenomena, but …