This paper analyses the ongoing plurilateral negotiations for a new Agreement on Trade in Services. Its aim is to … the new plurilateral trade in services agreement? How will the architecture of the new agreement look like? (2) What are … the interests involved in negotiating this new plurilateral agreement on trade in services? and (3) How will it fit into …

Nepal was the first Least Developed Country to negotiate its accession to the World Trade Organization. The negotiation …

/organization participating in world trade or the volume of heterogeneous transactions) and shrunk (close interrelations between transactions, no …

The estimated e¡èects of distance in empirical international trade regressions are unrealistically high. Using state … explanation. This overestimation is mostly attributed to the mismeasurement of the distance elasticity of trade costs when …

an international trade context. Evidence from U.S. exports supports this view by suggesting that the elasticity of demand … overestimate the gains from reducing trade costs with developed or distant countries and underestimate them with developing or …

trade variables, namely the index of revealed comparative advantages (RCA), the Grubel-Lloyd index, and other indicators of … international trade. There is a recent strand in the literature advancing a theory that links the degree of intra-industry trade … groups. Thereafter each of these four clusters are further characterized with the help of the other international trade …

would encounter the most problems and those that would be most favored by a trade agreement. A general typology of the … changes under different protection regimes in an eventual free trade area between the United States and MERCOSUR is developed … (enhanced protection versus reduced protection and trade diversion versus trade creation). This methodology utilizes data on …