Search Results - subject:"WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION"

Managing Trade Policy During the Economic Crisis

Saez, Sebastian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

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Climate policy options and the World Trade Organization

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

principles of the world trading system set forth in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade … Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measuresboth import restrictive measures and export …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097474

Triggers, Remedies, and Tariff Cuts: Assessing the Impact of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Developing Countries

Grant, Jason H.; Meilke, Karl D. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 10 (2009) 1

The WTO negotiations broke down on July 30th, 2008 because members could not bridge their differences over the operation of a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This article evaluates the latest SSM proposal using the world wheat market as our case study. Whether low-income WTO members should be...

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Yen Bloc or Yuan Bloc; An Analysis of Currency Arrangements in East Asia

Shirono, Kazuko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper examines the role of Japan against that of China in the exchange rate regime in East Asia in light of growing interest in forming a currency union in the region. The analysis suggests that currency unions with China tend to generate higher average welfare gains for East Asian...

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In Search of WTO Trade Effects; Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly

Eicher, Theo S.; Henn, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose's (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826257

Everything you always wanted to know about wto accession (but were afraid to ask)

Cattaneo, Olivier; Braga, Carlos A. Primo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

In this paper, the authors explore the complex, long, and unique process of accession to the World Trade Organization … rationale of accession to the World Trade Organization: Why would new members join the WTO? And why would incumbent members let … new members in? Second, it analyzes the World Trade Organization accession process in detail: What are the main …

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The World Trade Organization and Climate Change: Challenges and Options

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009

adversely affect the environment, there are linkages between existing rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and rules …

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Vietnam's Accession to the WTO: Expost Evaluation in a Dynamic Perspective

Boumellassa, Houssein; Valin, Hugo - In: Economie Internationale (2009) 118, pp. 13-42

This paper aims to reassess the impact of Vietnam's accession to the WTO using a quantitative computable genera equilibrium (CGE) approach. First, a recursive dynamic approach helps to better handle the effects of the commitments in the context of a rapid economic growth. Second, thanks to the...

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One Money,one Market; A Revised Benchmark

Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The introduction of the euro generated substantial interest in measuring the impact of currency unions (CUs) on trade flows. Rose's (2000) initial estimates suggested a tripling of trade and created a literature in search of "more reasonable" CU effects. A recent meta-analysis of this literature...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528645

Putting the Parts together; Trade, Vertical Linkages, and Business Cycle Comovement

Levchenko, Andrei A.; Giovanni, Julian di - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Countries that trade more with each other exhibit higher business cycle correlation. This paper examines the mechanisms underlying this relationship using a large cross-country industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. We show that sector pairs that experience more...

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