Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

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 …

This paper examines the evolution of global merchandise trade, between 2010 and 2022, assessing the share of imports … subject to regional trade agreements (RTAs). A key question for us is whether the share of merchandise trade subject to … dominate global merchandise trade between 2010 and 2022. Using tariff-line level import data for 157 customs territories and …

Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade …. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This paper argues that existing results in … regional trade agreements boost services trade but not goods trade. Estimating separate non-tariff barrier effects for each …

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have become an indelible feature of the international trading landscape. Most, if not … (partial scope agreement, free trade agreement or customs union), and (v) configuration (bilateral or plurilateral). Second, we …

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have become an indelible feature of the international trading landscape. Most, if not … (partial scope agreement, free trade agreement or customs union), and (v) configuration (bilateral or plurilateral). Second, we …

them as trade-restrictive interventions. Most interestingly, we show that deep-integration clauses in regional trade …

Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to … simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and … dematerializing trade data and documents and enabling their electronic exchange, commonly referred to as paperless trade measures, are …

With an increasing number of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) covering trade in services, we explore the impact of … PTAs on services trade. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper in this literature that endogenizes the … impact of preferentialism in estimating the trade effect. We also add to this literature by distilling the trade effect of …

Over the past decade, an increasing number of economies have resorted to regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a means to …