are much stronger than the general case covering all RTAs in the world. In addition, as we control the trade effect of a … country's trade facilitation, which is ranked by the World Bank's logistic performance index, RTAs consisting of trade …The RTAs with trade facilitation provisions have been expected to generate a larger net trade-creating effect and …

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 …