Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key … components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single … gains through the import of intermediate inputs and capital goods and systematically explores the specific impacts of non-trade …

This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …

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 …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …

The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But … regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at … of attention in multilateral trade agreements and negotiations as the elimination of import tariffs and quantitative …

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