success of past multilateralism and an added guarantee for its survival. …

The stumbling-bloc argument asserts that regionalism hinders MFN tariff cutting. If this was of first-order importance … for products where nations apply high MFN tariffs. One interpretation is that regionalism is neither a building nor a …

regionalism can undermine support for multilateralism. Discriminatory trade policies alter the balance of gains and losses that …

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent …

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent …

forces might drive them, and what the WTO might do to guide them. Two facts form the point of departure: 1) Regionalism is … multilateralisation of regionalism. The paper presents the political economy logic of trade liberalisation and uses it to structure a … building blocs – whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the multilateralisation of regionalism. Finally, the paper …

Globalization, multilateralism and regionalism are the most significant tendencies of today's world economy. Their …, multilateralism and regionalism has, however, changed markedly. Subsequently, their mutual relations have changed as well. Based upon … the study of New Regionalism, which leads towards more complex and open trade agreements, it seems that multilateralism …

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent …