The country [New Zealand] has been an active participant in multilateral trade negotiations. In those negotiations it has developed a style and stance of its own. This study is an investigation of that style and stance, or more broadly an investigation of aspects of the manner in which New...

The current WTO agricultural trade negotiations began in March 2000, and became part of the Doha Round in late 2001. The previous Uruguay Round reached agreements in the areas of market access, export competition and domestic support. The current Round is seeking agreements under similar...

[...] In the final analysis the RTR is potentially a sound and useful measure for providing an indication of the relative effects of border protection. If offers interesting dynamic possibilities should the measure be updated annually, although the resource cost involved in widening the scope of...

In this work we extend a De Jure measure of capital account restrictions, previously assembled by Miniane (2004) for 34 economies, to a set of 181 countries for the period 1996-2005. Additionally, having in mind the pitfalls of this indicator, we propose two new measures. The first excludes...

Commodity prices have increased dramatically and persistently over the past several years, followed by a sharp reversal in recent months. These large and persistent movements in commodity prices raise questions about their implications for global inflation. The process of globalization has...