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 …

international trade, changing prices, quantities traded, or both. This definition comprises both measures that restrict trade and … measures, for example) and trade remedies, and more complex measures such as technical and health regulations, whose main … purpose is generally not restrict trade, but to achieve other public policy objectives. The article presents some preliminary …

The key result of the so-called New Trade Theory is that countries gain from falling trade costs by an increase in the … result is a major issue for anti-trade activists who criticize the move towards free trade as promoting homogenization or … in environmental economics where simply knowing that a species exists provides utility). Since lowering trade costs …

economy model of trade protection. We associate the sectors of a specific factors model with electoral districts populated by … representatives then sets tariffs that are strictly positive. Introducing additional policy instruments reveals a trade-off between …

Although the flows of international trade in services remain relatively concentrated in the European Union and the … international trade in services. Given the rapid growth of trade in services in the BRICS, this article aims to analyze the … participation of those countries in international trade in services. In order to do so, I analyze comparatively the participation of …

This paper utilizes a many-country, many-product Ricardian trade model to evaluate the usefulness of measures of … differential effect of changes in trade barriers across producers of different products, (b) identify countries who are relatively …

The paper reviews the evidence of the impact of trade liberalisation on the economic performance of poor developing … countries, trade and the balance of payments, and economic growth, and finds that liberalisation has not delivered the benefits …

We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs … strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not … only directly but also indirectly through discipline. Using extensive data on international cartels, we find that trade …

Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common … economically relevant to determine import processing costs, predict who would benefits from trade facilitation, and interpret …