Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - In: Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 223-256
We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, the General Agreement on … GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its historical antecedents. We suggest that the existing literature provides a … useful framework for understanding and interpreting central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we …