This policy brief comments on a number of macro-structural linkages that have implications for firm-level dynamism, which may have served as contributing factors to the stag-deflation that has gripped the OECD region as a whole, including Canada, in recent years. Specific linkages considered...

The mega regional trade agreements – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – will impact on non-parties through a combination of trade...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will impact on substantive market regulations in a wide a range of areas bearing on market access, both by establishing substantive new horizontal and sectoral standards and by establishing requirements regarding...

The major area of activity in international trade regulation is currently within the mega-regional trade negotiations – the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement. These...

Major developments in trade policy are currently taking place in the mega-regional trade agreements, in particular in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement. These agreements are setting new standards and breaking...

The mega-regional trade agreements, particularly the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), represent a new phenomenon for the trading system. As major preferential trade agreements that involve the...

Against the background of evidence of the dominant role of unilateral initiatives in advancing global trade liberalization in recent decades and of the deadweight costs of utilizing preferences under bilateral/regional free trade agreements, this study evaluates the implications of Canada...

For apparently irreconcilable domestic political reasons, the United States is an outlier amongst economically advanced countries as the only one that does not have a value added tax (VAT), which is the conventional and WTO-sanctioned approach to applying an economically efficient and...

The election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States raises a litany of questions about the future of US trade policy. Canada, along with Mexico, is particularly heavily exposed to trade with the United States and there is considerable speculation about how Canada should react if...

Economic history since the industrial revolution has not been a story of gradual evolution. Rather it has been punctuated by disruptive changes that ushered in new episodes. The current episode is being ushered out; what will replace it? The sources of the disruption can be traced by the various...