This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters …, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilita- tion Indicators (TFIs … three trade-related outcomes: (i) exported value (firm intensive margin), (ii) number of products exported (product …

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters …, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilita- tion Indicators (TFIs … three trade-related outcomes: (i) exported value (firm intensive margin), (ii) number of products exported (product …

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters …, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released … trade-related outcomes: (i) exported value (firm intensive margin), (ii) number of products exported (product extensive …

Stringent Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) are expected to drive exporters out of the markets imposing these hurdles … measures raised as concerns at the WTO (Specific Trade Concerns - STCs), with a firm-level panel of French exporters, we show … the complex effects of restrictive TBT measures on the different margins of trade. We show that the negative effect of TBT …

Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all … two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate the time-varying probability for a country pair to sign a trade …

trade impact of such procedures, which on the one hand involve administrative costs, but on the other hand provide … reduce bilateral trade and are most harmful for trade in differentiated manufacturing products. In contrast, PSI facilitate … trade in food products. Trade in products subject to sanitary and phytosanitary measures even doubles when these measures …

divergent trade patterns for different economies. We provide evidence that the level of development governs the relevance of …

A new “Ministerial” of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will be held in Geneva 15-17 December 2011. Usually, such …. The achievement of this ministerial will be more modest. The current Round of multilateral trade negotiations that was … infructuous negotiations. Even an interim agreement dedicated to poor countries and trade facilitation is out of reach. …