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 …

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of … strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue …

I study the short- and long-term effects of trade agreements with strict intellectual property (IP) provisions on … innovation, growth and welfare. I develop a quantitative multi-country trade model with endogenous productivity through … protection in exchange for market access increases welfare, innovation and growth in the world. However, welfare gains along the …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …