The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … rules of the game for other trade-related policies. Given the slow progress of the Round, greater emphasis could be put on …

Following the onset of the financial crisis in September 2008 and the subsequent “Great Trade Collapse” (Baldwin 2009 …), many countries actively used trade policy instruments as part of their response to the global recession. Governments … pursued a mix of trade liberalization, trade promotion, and trade restrictions. The choice of trade policy has varied, with …

In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also …. Striking is, however, the outstanding pace of the new trade deals among traditional trading powers. Our paper addresses the … trade relations. It concludes that the recent push for FTAs by the big trading powers is a rapid means of mutual market …

migration as a tool for increasing trade. We attempt to put this position to empirical scrutiny. Our results demonstrate that … migrants spur exports, especially along the extensive product margin of trade and for differentiated products, but with no … migration to facilitate trade may only be effective with respect to exports. This paper also contributes to the literature on …

The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in … industrializers and the failure of recent across-the-board and universal trade liberalization, he proposes the necessary changes in …

protectionism as expected. Nevertheless, numerous countries have adjusted their trade policies during the financial crisis to … incidence of the newly introduced trade restrictive measures. Starting from a brief overview of the current situation in the … global economy, the paper highlights the main trends in the recent evolution of trade protectionism. It takes stock of the …

This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of … motivated geographical trade arrangements, including carbon free trade areas. We first suggest that trade policy is likely to be … next several decades will be growth more so than trade and its composition, and in turn, the size of trade seemingly …

negative shock to the global economy that is comparable with the Great Depression of the 1930s. International trade suffered a … historical collapse in 2009, but trade flows quickly rebounded thereafter. And unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s, the … in many countries’ trade policies during the crisis and, hence, a quite notable increase in the incidence of …

latest and most relevant developments and highlight the prospects for global trade governance. The focus is on three major … regional trade agreements (RTAs) and their wider impact; and (3) the positive results of continued unilateral trade …, despite improved prospects for multilateral trade liberalization following the last WTO Ministerial Conference, the world …

amount to a summary of my views about international trade theory over the latest forty years or so, I’m giving the comments a …