This paper uses computational techniques to assess whether or not various propositions that have been advanced as plausible in the literature on regional trade agreements may actually hold. The idea is to make probabilistic statements as to whether propositions of interest might hold, rather...

This study seeks to investigate empirically the directional impacts of NTMs on intra-ASEAN exports given that not all NTMs pose constraints to trade. Though NTMs are found to be diverse and intense for specific bilateral pairs, there is no empirical evidence of adverse impacts of NTMs on...

In making RTAs, WTO members need to justify its legal problem of MFN violation. Although the Enabling Clause provides important flexibility for the justification, RTAs concluded only among WTO member developing countries may claim this flexibility under the clause. As a consequence, any WTO...

Escape mechanisms from trade agreements are necessary because such agreements are incomplete, self-enforcing, contracts negotiated when the future is unknown. The essence of multilateral escape mechanisms is the principle of equivalent withdrawal of concessions, which allows trade agreements to...

A study of international value chains implies both estimating the scale of involvement of each country in the global economy and analysing the factors that influence the integration of companies based in different countries in value chains. The latter is of special interest due to the necessity...

A deranged publisher decided to produce a volume of some of my papers and asked me to write some comments. Since these amount to a summary of my views about international trade theory over the latest forty years or so, I'm giving the comments a separate alternative existence as a discussion paper

We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be...

The present study investigates the effect of regional and bilateral trade agreements supported by institutional framework on bilateral trade between India and selected South and Central Asian countries. The augmented gravity model that corrects for zero trade, endogeneity and heterogeneity is...

We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be...