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COVID-19, public procurement regimes and trade policy
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VoxEU; 2021; [RSCAS]
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HOEKMAN, Bernard M., SHINGAL, Anirudh, EKNATH, Varun, ERESHCHENKO, Viktoriya, COVID-19, public procurement regimes and trade policy, VoxEU, 2021, [RSCAS] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70206
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A prominent feature of the public policy response to COVID-19 has been the active use of trade policy instruments to enable access to essential supplies. This column finds the use of export restrictions targeting medical products to be strongly positively correlated with characteristics of prevailing public procurement regimes. Membership of trade agreements encompassing public procurement disciplines is associated with actions to facilitate trade in medical products. These findings suggest that future empirical assessments of trade policy drivers during the pandemic should consider the role of national public procurement systems and deep trade agreements.
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First published on: 25 November 2020
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The article is a published version of EUI RSCAS WP; 2020/72.