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 …

International standards have the potential to both promote and hinder international trade. Yet empirical scholarship on … the standards-trade relationship has been held up due to some methodological challenges: measurement problems, varied … standard on the country-pair trade flows between 91 nations over the 1995-2005 period. To deal with these challenges, we …

-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup … zero-sum welfare effects similar to implicit tariffs that tilt the terms of trade in favor of countries exporting high … compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …

Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade … waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important …-security issues such as trade. A dearth of popular awareness on trade-related activities between India and Pakistan may limit the …

This paper investigates the relationship between the diffusion of EU standards and product quality upgrading using … standards boosts the rate of quality upgrading. However the results are heterogeneous when moving from primary to processed … foods, and from ISO to non-ISO standards. …