The CIS countries were subject to severe economic shocks in the early 1990s that have yet to be fully absorbed; this is especially true for their manufacturing industries. Manufactured exports fell dramatically after the breakup of the Soviet Union both absolutely and as a percentage of total trade;...

Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association focusing on "Globalization and its Controversies", in Lodz, Poland, May 10 -14, 2006. Funding for this project was provided by the US Fulbright Program and the US-Israel Educational Foundation.

Arab countries are attempting to broaden their engagement in the multilateral trading system in a manner that has many implications. Not only have some Arab countries either acceded or are in the pipeline of acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO), but their new commitments coincides with...

Presented at 16th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association, in Lodz, Poland, May 2006.

In a 2005 report, the staff of the World Bank concluded that the formulaic, government-constraining, proactive role that the World Bank had played during the structural adjustment period was ill-conceived. Development, it concluded, is too idiosyncratic, too indeterminate to justify such an...

This paper was presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association in Lodz, Poland, May 10-13, 2006.

This paper was presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association in Lodz, Poland, May 10-13, 2006.

This paper considers the impact of preferential trade liberalization (PTL) on multilateral trade liberalization (MTL), focusing on the European Union. The model that we develop, which builds on Limão (2002), captures key features of the multilateral system and of recent PTAs and generates...

This paper presents the results of a survey of Turkish apparel exporters and provides an inside view into their attitudes, expectations, and strategic preparations at the dawn of the quota-elimination period. It was presented at the 15th International Convention of the International Trade and...

In responding to a series of antidumping charges against Chinese exports to the US, Chinese companies involved have become more active in defending themselves. A key issue in the US antidumping cases against China is the selection of a surrogate country. According to the 1999 Sino-American Trade...