analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … OECD database. The STPD offers comparable information on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across …. Second, the database contains information not just on core trade policies but also on other increasingly relevant aspects …

trade related developments associated with the global financial crisis. When G20 Leaders met in London in early 2009 they … protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Ten years of trade monitoring later, and notwithstanding widespread anti-trade … certain trade restrictive policy measures, the overall reality has been less alarmist. The paper will provide an introduction …

This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a … sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff … commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs- what is also known as tariffs …

We examine the effects of transit, documentation, and ports and customs delays on Africa’s exports. We find that … smaller impact on trade. We control for the possibility that greater trade leads to shorter delays in three ways. First, we … examine the effect of trade times on exports of new products. Second, we evaluate the effect of delays in a transit country on …

major challenge: how to ensure the effective management of international economic interdependence. Trade, growth, good … of trade. Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight … against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for …

Economists have increasingly become involved in trade remedy and litigation matters that call for economic … interpretation or quantification. The literature on the use of econometric methods in response to legal requirements of trade policy … illustrate the systemic need for trade lawyers and economists to cooperate. It is also of imminent practical relevance with a …

most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added (TiVA) clusters. The level of economic development remains a …

, even for very small preferential margins and/or very small trade flows, which contradicts numerous estimates that average … a percentage share of the trade value, our findings indicate that utilization costs involve an important fixed cost … element. We provide estimates for such fixed costs, which appear to be in the range of USD 14 to USD 1,500. -- Trade policy …

As of November 2010, more than 300 regional trade agreements (RTAs) were in force. Approximately two-thirds of them had … the regional level, of a current practice of not using antidumping as a trade policy tool is restricted to a limited … diversion" materializes. -- Regional Trade Agreements ; antidumping ; trade remedies …

This paper assembles detailed information on the market access provisions in trade in goods contained in 192 active … regional trade agreements (RTAs) notified to the WTO as of November 2010. Although market access provisions in trade in goods … trade data by WTO Members engaged in RTAs. This information has been supplemented by other public sources of data, where …