LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures … (NTMs) have been replacing tariffs continuously as the core element of trade negotiations. Today they take centre stage in … all EU trade agreements with industrialised and emerging economies. By matching product codes to the rich data of NTM …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

In a world with increasingly integrated global supply chains, trade policy targeting upstream products has unintended … empirical analysis. Then, we test our model by identifying the input-output relationships among the time-varying temporary trade … increase the likelihood of their downstream users' subsequent trade remedy petition over the 1988-2013 period. Moreover, our …

trade-destroying effect of AD measures on the imports from targeted countries while such measures are in force. However, in … previously installed AD measure, bilateral trade may not fully recover to its pre-intervention level …

The goal of the paper is to develop the method for measuring barriers to trade in services and apply it to determine … results of removing the barriers. The paper reviews the literature on barriers to trade in services and how they are measured …

This paper presents new estimates of policy-induced trade costs in five services sectors for 46 countries. Results … demonstrate the significant untapped economic potential of multilateral, plurilateral, and unilateral services trade … liberalisation. Even though services trade has more than tripled in the last two decades, the results show that trade costs are still …

A growing share of modern trade policy instruments is shaped by non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Based on a structural … gravity equation and the recently updated Global Trade Alert database, we empirically investigate the effect of NTBs on … imports. Our analysis reveals that the implementation of NTBs reduces imports of affected products by up to 12%. Their trade …