or selection variable. This paper describes a ‘wrapper’ program, ssm, that calls gllamm (Rabe-Hesketh et al. 2004a) to … manner that is easily interpretable. One important feature of ssm is that the log-likelihood can be evaluated using adaptive …

The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the WTO … negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. It includes both price (P-SSM) and quantity-triggered measures (Q-SSM). This paper … policies based on the SSM rules. As expected, implementation of the Q-SSM is found to reduce imports, raise domestic prices …

architecture are addressed: the organization of MAP within the Single Supervisory Mechanisms (SSM), the definition of the role of … the European Central Bank (ECB) and of the ESRB as far as macroprudential policy is concerned. In the conclusions, we … evaluate the new architecture which is quite complex and cumbersome, and the challenge that the SSM is facing: to achieve …

Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the World Trade Organization. It draws on political economy and market theory to demonstrate that … the loss-averting domestic producer benefits that proponents believe the SSM would offer agricultural-importing developing …. The results suggest that the proposed SSM would deliver at most only a small fraction of the loss-averting benefits that …

. First, establishing a Single Supervisory Mechanism under the roof of the ECB and within the framework of the current EU …