University in Israel, provides a proposal that responds to the problems posed by the increasing prevalence of regional trade … agreements. The Article argues that RTAs have tended to undermine the development of the multilateral trade system. Specifically …, they pose an institutional threat to the WTO - they drain states' enthusiasm for multilateral trade negotiations, create …

If concluded, Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) will constitute unprecedented reciprocal free trade arrangements … that trade reform can lead to efficiency gains, increased competition, lower prices, knowledge transfers and ultimately …-North trade relations, one of the most renown examples being the internal market of the EU. Once North-South trade liberalisation …

While the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement has received far more attention, a lesser-known U ….S. trade deal has also been reworked. In April of 2017, President Trump proclaimed his displeasure with the Korea-U.S. Free … Trade Agreement (commonly referred to as “KORUS”), stating, “It was a Hillary Clinton disaster, a deal that should’ve never …

multilateral trading system in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) of free trade agreements (FTAs) at a time when FTAs …-specific negotiations both outside the WTO such as the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), and within, in the form of Joint Statement … Initiatives (JSIs). The article assesses from GATT formation to the present the extent to which the full range of trade agreements …

Europe since the XIXth century up to date. The research objective is to review the liberalisation of trade dynamics and … occurred in international trade as a result of the emergence of developing nations as major trade partners, the European Union … and the United States remain the economic and trade hegemons. …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research. …

Europe since the XIXth century up to date. The research objective is to review the liberalisation of trade dynamics and … occurred in international trade as a result of the emergence of developing nations as major trade partners, the European Union … and the United States remain the economic and trade hegemons. …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …

This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The … variables of medieval trade ows based on an empirical trade model. These results shed new light on many qualitative debates on … the importance and causes of medieval trade. …