Bagwell, Kyle; Bown, Chad P.; Staiger, Robert W. - 2015
growing economics literature on international trade agreements and argues on this basis that the WTO is not passé. Rather, and …The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of … preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried …