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 …

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union …-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade … involving SSA countries. The main objective is to find out if EU trade preferences and regional trade agreements within SSA had …

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union …-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade … involving SSA countries. The main objective is to find out if EU trade preferences and regional trade agreements within SSA had …

It has generally been argued that regional trade agreements (RTAs) among developing countries may induce potential … adverse effects on trade patterns among RTA members and between them and third countries. Using an expanded gravity model this … paper estimates for a number of regional trade arrangements among developing countries (AFTA, Andean Community, CARICOM …

protect EU growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. We represent these trade costs in the … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the … extensive and intensive margins of trade, the high stringency of EU pesticide standard prevents new entry into the EU market …

We use an empirical gravity equation approach to study how nonreciprocal trade preferences (NRTPs), enacted mainly …, the average trade effect stemming from nonreciprocal preferences is highly unstable across specifications. However, once … effect on the exports of beneficiaries when they are members of the World Trade Organization and are very poor. Not …

affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the … effects of proximity and regional trade agreements have increased over time. We also document substantial cross … distribution have seen the steepest fall in distance coefficients. At the same time, distance as a trade friction has not lost its …

We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We … are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural … offers robust evidence that stronger institutions promote trade. A counterfactual analysis reveals that the changes in …

by investigating export facilitation from the lens of export-oriented quality infrastructure rather than the trade time …

Bilateral trade flows are examined to investigate whether trade patterns are consistent with a simple model of trade in … differentiated products. In contrast to previous results in the literature, it is shown that the simple model of trade in … differentiated products is often not appropriate for trade among the poor nations. Demand differences among the poor countries are …