The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no … end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on … the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …

The European Union’s (EU) role in international trade has evolved from a defensive position during the 1960s and 1970s … developed common policies on all trade and trade-related topics, but the normative power this provides has had little … discernable impact on multilateral trade outcomes. The decision-making procedures of the EU have functioned tolerably well up to …

The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no … end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on … the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …

-enforcing policy coordination implied by theoretical models, and then examines the empirical studies on trade disputes of the GATT/WTO. …This chapter reviews the literature on the enforcement and dispute settlement of international trade agreements. It … insights: How can governments enforce trade agreements and settle disputes in the presence of incomplete information about …

question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied … GATT/WTO and we argue that an economic perspective can go a long way toward revealing a consistent logic to the inclusion …What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We review a literature on this …

inclusion of GATS and TRIPS in the WTO made the WTO a more important influence on international cultural policy than its GATT … and the cultural industries have both common and distinct international economic dimensions. In trade agreements … products and a convention addresses illicit trade in cultural property, a heritage issue. Currently, UNESCO is the focus of …

For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO … account of the use of OPAs in the GATT 1947 era and of its revival under the WTO Agreement. It describes the various areas of … concluding trade agreements is inevitable. However, the negotiating process has also been an obstacle to progress. All decisions …

We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and …

We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may … be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade … explicitly into account can help explain a number of key features of real trade agreements. …

new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade …Social policies are likely to have an ever-more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the … unfair, ecologically unsound, and even immoral to trade with countries adopting much lower standards than theirs. This paper …