focus of GATT/WTO disciplines and Hudec’s analysis. …

developing countries by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), bilateral donors and to a large extent through GATT/WTO …

by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU, but an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of …

Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an eff ective framework for cooperation because it has … liberalization mechanism that has driven the WTO process to previous successes. Second, new restraints on bilateralism and …

discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of … deepen existing multilateral transparency commitments (“WTO-plus”), but expand them to new areas that do not have precedents …-exhaustible. The implication is that, although WTO-plus transparency measures may be de jure preferential by virtue of being inscribed …

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 …

may participate in WTO dispute settlement procedures, which originally have been conceived as an inter-state mechanism … taking into present negotiations at the WTO (Doha Round). In a first part, the paper examines the actual status of amicus … times, the issue remains highly controversial among WTO Members. The EC ?' Asbestos decision provoked a strong reaction by …

Decision making in the WTO has become ever more difficult as the number of members increases and the range of issues … under certain conditions, as it would: i) allow for the emergence of a more progressive and responsive WTO agenda; ii) blunt …

of export market entry is sunk. While an explicit purpose of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to secure long term … market access, little theoretical and empirical work analyzes the value of WTO institutions for reducing uncertainty for … eliminate uncertainty such as binding trade policy commitments at the WTO can increase entry even when applied protection is …