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Title:The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and rulemaking in the WTO : milestone, mistake or mirage? Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/102; Global Governance Programme-132; Global EconomicsAbstract:The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of ...
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/102; Global Governance Programme-132; Global EconomicsAbstract:The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of ...
Title:Services trade restrictiveness and manufacturing productivity : the role of institutions Author(s):BEVERELLI, Cosimo ; FIORINI, Matteo; HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/63; Global Governance Programme-185; [Global Economics]Abstract:We study the effect of services trade restrictiveness on manufacturing productivity for a broad cross-section of countries at different stages of economic development. Decreasing services trade restrictiveness has a positive ...
; FIORINI, Matteo; HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/63; Global Governance Programme-185; [Global Economics]Abstract:We study the effect of services trade restrictiveness on manufacturing productivity for a broad cross-section of countries at different stages of economic development. Decreasing services trade restrictiveness has a positive ...
Title:Revitalizing the global trading system : what could the G20 do? Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/28; Global Governance Programme-218; Global EconomicsAbstract:Since 2008, G20 leaders have repeatedly committed themselves not to resort to protectionism and to conclude WTO negotiations expeditiously. The jury is out on the extent to which they lived up to the first promise; they ...
Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/28; Global Governance Programme-218; Global EconomicsAbstract:Since 2008, G20 leaders have repeatedly committed themselves not to resort to protectionism and to conclude WTO negotiations expeditiously. The jury is out on the extent to which they lived up to the first promise; they ...
Title:State capacity and economic integration : evidence from the Eastern enlargement Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; CAMPOS, Nauro F.Date:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/52; Global Governance Programme-281; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:We study whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. Despite the recent surge in economist’s interest in state capacity, there remains a lack of theory-based detailed empirical measures. This paper ...
; CAMPOS, Nauro F.Date:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/52; Global Governance Programme-281; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:We study whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. Despite the recent surge in economist’s interest in state capacity, there remains a lack of theory-based detailed empirical measures. This paper ...