Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …

In the paper the endogenous trade model follows the Grosman and Helpman tradition. The structure of the economy is … characterised by a specific factor trade model and consumers' preferences are quasilinears. …

Financial Crisis, I develop a simple 2x2x2 CGE model, which incorporates migration, foreign investment, and international trade …, to empirically analyze the impact of migration in a wider perspective (i.e., migration, trade, and FDI are simultaneously …. The simulation exercises also suggest that migration is inferior to trade liberalization as a means of bringing positive …

measurements of the average (treatment) effects of EIAs on trade seem so « small ». Third, after addressing evidence for long …

This paper focuses on the possible effects on lobbying effort of a reform of the trade policy decision mechanism. In …

the rising differential is due to "trade" -shorthand for greater openness in global markets and/or greater participation …