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RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS:  WORKING PAPERS

WTO staff working papers

The papers listed below are working papers, and hence they usually represent research in progress.  They reflect the opinions of individual staff members, and are the product of professional research. Such research may be conducted in the preparation of Secretariat reports, studies, or informational material for Members. These papers are circulated for discussion and comment because critical review of professional research is important to skills maintenance and professional development of Secretariat staff.

Note: THESE PAPERS ARE NOT OFFICIAL SECRETARIAT PAPERS and are not meant to represent the position or opinions of the WTO or its Members, nor the official position of any staff members, apart from the author(s). Any errors are the responsibility of the authors.

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2010  back to top

ERSD-2010-08

International Supply Chains and Trade Elasticity in Times of Global Crisis
Hubert Escaith, Nannette Lindenberg and Sébastien Miroudot
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 42 pages, 515KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-07

What Constrains Africa's Exports?
Caroline Freund and Nadia Rocha
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 22 pages, 95KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-06

International Rules for Trade in Natural Resources
Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 22 pages, 92KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-05

The Relation between International Trade and Freshwater Scarcity
Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Download (pdf format, 26 pages, 189KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-04

Trade and Deforestation: A Literature Review
Juan Robalino and Luis Diego Herrera
Download (pdf format, 45 pages, 350KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-03

Trade and Fisheries: Key Issues for the World Trade Organization
Frank Asche and Martin D. Smith
Download (pdf format, 62 pages, 419KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-02

Oil Price Volatility: Origins and Effects
Lutz Kilian
Download (pdf format, 34 pages, 148KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2010-01

Trade in Mineral Resources
Graham A. Davis
Download (pdf format, 42 pages, 206KB, opens in a new window)

  

2009  back to top

ERSD-2009-16 Restoring Trade Finance during a Period of Financial Crisis: Stock-taking of Recent Initiatives
Marc Auboin
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 25 pages, 151KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-15

Trade in Healthcare and Health Insurance Services: The GATS as a Supporting Actor (?)
Rudolf Adlung
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 29 pages, 164KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-14

Market Shares in the Post-Uruguay Round Era: A Closer Look Using Shift-Share Analysis
Ninez Piezas-Jerbi and Coleman Nee
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 85 pages, 1.33MB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-13

Mapping the Tariff Waters
Antonia Diakantoni and Hubert Escaith
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 31 pages, 463KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-12

The Value of Domestic Subsidy Rules in Trade Agreements
Michael Ruta
Daniel Brou
Edoardo Campanella
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 19 pages, 188KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-11

The WTO: Theory and Practice
Kyle Bagwell
Robert W. Staiger
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 39 pages, 256KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-10

The Economics of Trade Agreements in the Linear Cournot Delocation Model
Kyle Bagwell
Robert W. Staiger
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 36 pages, 275KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-09

Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards: A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process
Mostafa Beshkar
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 37 pages, 406KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-08

A ‘New Trade’ Theory of GATT/WTO Negotiations
Ralph Ossa
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 51 pages, 367KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-07

Endowments, Power, and Democracy: Political Economy of Multilateral Commitments on Trade in Services
Martin Roy
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 36 pages, 211KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-06

International Trade and Real Transmission Channels of Financial Shocks in Globalized Production Networks
Hubert Escaith and Fabien Gonguet
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 33 pages, 334KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-05

Services Liberalization from a WTO/GATS Perspective: In Search of Volunteers
Rudolf Adlung
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 26 pages, 189KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-04

Exposure to External Country Specific Shocks and Income Volatility
Marion Jansen, Carolina Lennon and Roberta Piermartini
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 23 pages, 97KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-03

R&D in the Network of International Trade: Multilateral versus Regional Trade Agreements
Mariya Teteryatnikova
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 34 pages, 435KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-02

Social Interactions of Migrants and Trade Outcomes
Silvio H. T. Tai
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 23 pages, 222KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2009-01

Risk Assessment in the International Food Saftey Policy Arena
Can the multilateral institutions encourage unbiased outcomes?
Lee Ann Jackson and Marion Jansen
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 25 pages, 99KB, opens in a new window)

  

2008  back to top

ERSD-2008-06

Liberalization of Air Transport Services and Passenger Traffic
Roberta Piermartini and Linda Rousová
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 31 pages, 251KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2008-05

Measuring GATS Mode 4 Trade Flows
Joscelyn Magdeleine and Andreas Maurer
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 20 pages, 114KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2008-04

The Economics of Permissible WTO Retaliation
Chad P. Bown and Michele Ruta
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 54 pages, 245KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2008-03

LDC Poverty Alleviation and the Doha Development Agenda: Is Tourism being Neglected?
Dale Honeck
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 46 pages, 253KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2008-02

The harmonized system — Amendments and their impact on WTO Members’ schedules
Dayong Yu
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 25 pages, 184KB, opens in a new window)

ERSD-2008-01

Bilateralism in Services Trade:
Is There Fire Behind the (Bit-)Smoke?
Rudolf Adlung and Martin Molinuevo,
Also appears in “Bilateralism in Services Trade: Is there Fire behind the (BIT-) Smoke?”, Journal of International Economic Law¸ Vol. 11, No. 2, 2008.
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 37 pages, 347KB, opens in a new window)

  

2007  back to top

ERSD-2007-04

Boosting Trade Finance in Developing Countries:
What link with the WTO?
Marc Auboin
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 22 pages, 105KB)

ERSD-2007-03

Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
Robert Teh, Thomas J. Prusa and Michele Budetta
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 83 pages, 436KB)

ERSD-2007-02

Indisputably Essential: The Economics of Dispute Settlement Institutions in Trade Agreements
Alexander Keck and Simon Schropp
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 29 pages, 213KB)

ERSD-2007-01

The contribution of services liberalization to poverty reduction: What role for the GATS?
Rudolf Adlung
Also appears in “The Contribution of Services Liberalization to Poverty Reduction: What Role for the GATS?”, Journal of World Investment & Trade, August 2007;
http://www.wernerpubl.com/frame_inves.htm
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 21 pages, 121KB)

  

2006  back to top

ERSD-2006-11

Foreign Banking: Do Countries’ WTO Commitments Match Actual Practices?
James R. Barth, Juan A. Marchetti, Daniel E. Nolle and Wanvimol Sawangngoenyuang
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 59 pages, 231KB)

ERSD-2006-10

Telecommunications Services in Africa: The Impact of Multilateral Commitments and Unilateral Reform on Sector Performance and Economic Growth
Calvin Djiofack-Zebaze and Alexander Keck
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 36 pages, 287KB)

ERSD-2006-09

Political & quasi-adjudicative dispute settlement models in European Union Free Trade Agreements
Is the quasi-adjudicative model a trend or is it just another model?
Edna Ramírez Robles
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 43 pages, 202KB)

ERSD-2006-08

Determining "likeness" under the GATS: Squaring the circle?
Mireille Cossy
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 53 pages, 245KB)

ERSD-2006-07

Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs):
How much further than the GATS?
Martin Roy, Juan Marchetti, Hoe Lim
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 63 pages, 315KB)

ERSD-2006-06

Services trade liberalization at the regional level: does southern and eastern Africa stand to gain from EPA negotiations?
Marion Jansen
Also appears in Journal of World Trade 41(2): 411-450, 2007.
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 36 pages, 262KB)

ERSD-2006-05

Forecasting Trade
Alexander Keck and Alexander Raubold
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 30 pages, 332KB)

ERSD-2006-04

The Impact of Disasters on International Trade
Martin Gassebner, Alexander Keck and Robert Teh
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 26 pages, 104KB)

ERSD-2006-03

Liberalizing Financial Services Trade in Africa:
Going Regional and Multilateral
Marion Jansen and Yannick Vennes
Abstract   Download (pdf format, 26 pages, 166KB)

ERSD-2006-02

Non-Reciprocal Preference Erosion Arising From MFN Liberalization in Agriculture: What Are the Risks?
Patrick Low, Roberta Piermartini and Jurgen Richtering
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 48 pages, 1100KB)

ERSD-2006-01

A ‘Probabilistic’ Approach to the Use of Econometric Models in Sunset Reviews
Alexander Keck, Bruce Malashevich and Ian Gray
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 24 pages, 350KB)

  

2005  back to top

ERSD-2005-06

The Impact of Mode 4 Liberalization on Bilateral Trade Flows
Marion Jansen and Roberta Piermartini
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 20 pages, 387KB)

ERSD-2005-05

Multilateral Solutions to the Erosion of Non-Reciprocal Preferences in NAMA
Patrick Low, Roberta Piermartini and Jurgen Richtering
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 44 pages, 364KB)

ERSD-2005-04

The Economic Impact of EPAs in SADC Countries
Alexander Keck and Roberta Piermartini
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 41 pages, 940KB)

ERSD-2005-03

Public Services and the GATS
Rudolf Adlung
Also appears in “Public Services and the GATS”, Journal of International Economic Law¸ Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006.
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 29 pages, 234KB)

ERSD-2005-02

Environmental quality provision and eco-labelling: some issues
Laura Valentini
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 26 pages, 164KB)

ERSD-2005-01

Turning hills into mountains? Current commitments under the GATS and prospects for change
Rudolf Adlung and Martin Roy
Also appears in “Journal of World Trade”, Vol. 39, No. 6, 2005.
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 32 pages, 1123KB)

  

2004  back to top

ERSD-2004-07 The Impact of Mode 4 on Trade in Goods and Services
Marion Jansen and Roberta Piermartini
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 23 pages, 379KB)
ERSD-2004-06 Developing countries in the WTO services negotiations
Juan A. Marchetti
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 43 pages, 594KB)
ERSD-2004-05 The GATS turns ten: A Preliminary Stocktaking
“Services Negotiations in the Doha Round: Lost in Flexibility?”
Rudolf Adlung
Also appears in “Journal of International Economic Law”¸ Vol. 9, No. 4, 2006.
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 26 pages, 279KB)
ERSD-2004-04 Infrastructure and Trade
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås and Roberta Piermartini
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 30 pages, 973KB)
ERSD-2004-03 Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO: Why, When and How?
Alexander Keck and Patrick Low
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 37 pages, 355KB)
ERSD-2004-02 Institutions, trade policy and trade flows
Marion Jansen and Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 26 pages, 255KB)
ERSD-2004-01 National environmental policies and multilateral trade rules
Marion Jansen and Alexander Keck
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 34 pages, 262KB)
  

2003  back to top

ERSD-2003-04 Vertical specialization and the quality of infrastructure
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 244KB, 26 pages)
ERSD-2003-03 Is trade liberalization a window of opportunity for women?
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 388KB, 38 pages)
ERSD-2003-02 ICT, access to services and wage inequality
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 300KB, 25 pages)
ERSD-2003-01 Fragmented production: regionalization of trade?
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 325KB, 33 pages)
  

2002  back to top

DERD-2002-02 Effects of WTO accession on policy-making in sovereign states: preliminary lessons from the recent experience of transition countries
Marc Bacchetta and Zdenek Drabek
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 244KB, 50 pages)
DERD-2002-01 Product Labeling, Quality and International Trade
Marion Jansen and André Lince de Faria
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 818KB, 42 pages)
  

2001  back to top

ERAD-2001-02 Can trade policy help mobilize financial resources for economic development?
Zdenek Drabek and Sam Laird 
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 173KB, 30 pages)
ERAD-2001-01 Investment policies and telecommunications regimes
Zdenek Drabek
Abstract   Download (MS Word format,  340KB, 61 pages)
  

2000  back to top

ERAD-2000-01 International trade and the position of European low-skilled labour
Marion Jansen
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 1083KB, 21 pages)
 

1999  back to top

ERAD-99-03 Whether and When to Liberalize Capital Account and Financial Services
John Williamsonn and Zdenek Drabek
Abstract   Download  (MS Word format, 189KB, 21 pages)
ERAD-99-02 The Impact of Transparency on Foreign Direct Investment
Zdenek Drabek and Warren Payne
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 849KB, 28 pages)
ERAD-99-01
A Quantitative Assessment of Electronic Commerce
Ludger Schukhnecht and Rosa Pérez-Esteve
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 71KB, 13 pages)
ERAD-99-01-
tables
Download  (MS Excel format, 400KB)
TPRD-99-01 The EU model and Turkey — a case for thanksgiving?
Christina Hartler and Sam Laird
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 141KB, 19 pages)
 

1998  back to top

ERAD-98-12 Financial Services Trade, Capital Flows, and Financial Stability
Masamichi Kono and Ludger Schukhnecht
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 215KB, 40 pages)
ERAD-98-11 A Simple Trade Policy Perspective on Capital Controls
Ludger Schukhnecht
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 106KB, 8 pages)
ERAD-98-10 Preferential and Non-Preferential Trade Flows in World Trade
Jean-Marie Grether and Marcelo Olarreaga
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 170KB, 36 pages)
ERAD-98-08 Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment flows?
Patrick Low, Marcelo Olarreaga and Javier Suarez
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 306KB, 38 pages)
ERAD-98-07 Exchange Rate Regimes and the Stability of Trade Policy in Transition Economies
Zdenek Drabek and Josef C. Brada
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 1062KB, 35 pages)
ERAD-98-06 Fiscal Policy Cycles and Public Expenditure in Developing Countries
Ludger Schuknecht
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 83KB, 23 pages)
ERAD-98-05 A Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Convincing the Sceptics
Zdenek Drabek
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 109KB, 20 pages)
ERAD-98-04 Managing Capital Flows in Transition Economies with a Case-study of Central and Eastern Europe
Zdenek Drabek and Stephany Griffith-Jones
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 241KB, 44 pages)
ERAD-98-03 Why Are Trade Agreements More Attractive in The Presence of Foreign Direct Investment?
Marcelo Olarreaga
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 239KB, 26 pages)
ERAD-98-02 Can Bilateralism Ease the Pains of Multilateral Trade Liberalization?
Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 261KB, 23 pages)
ERAD-98-01 Reform in Basic Telecommunications and the WTO Negotiations: The Asian Experience
Patrick Low and A. Mattoo
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 258KB, 39 pages)
TPRD-98-03 Transition Economies, Business and the WTO
Sam Laird
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 152KB, 13 pages)
TPRD-98-02 Multilateral Approaches to Market Access Negotiations
Sam Laird
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 189KB, 23 pages)
TPRD-98-01 EU Import Measures and the Developing Countries
M. Auboin and S. Laird
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 258KB, 29 pages)
TISD-98-03 Financial Services and the WTO: Liberalization in the Developing and Transition Economies
A. Mattoo
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 494KB, 68 pages)
TISD-98-02 Regulatory Autonomy and Multilateral Disciplines: The Dilemma and a Possible Resolution
A. Mattoo and A. Subramanian
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 169KB, 26 pages)
TISD-98-01 Dealing with Monopolies and State Enterprises: WTO Rules for Goods and Services
A. Mattoo
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 258KB, 39 pages)
 

1997  back to top

ERAD-97-07

The New Liberalism: Trade Policy Developments in Emerging Markets
Z. Drabek and S. Laird
Abstract  Download (pdf format 421KB, 33 pages)

ERAD-97-06

Tying Governments’ Hands in Commodity Taxation
Ludger Schuknecht
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 136KB, 29 pages)

ERAD-97-04

Fiscal Policy Cycles and the Exchange Regime in Developing Countries
Ludger Schuknecht
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 82KB, 22 pages)

TPRD-97-02

MERCOSUR: Objectives and Achievements
Sam. Laird
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 409KB, 32 pages)

TPRD-97-01

WTO Rules and Good Practice on Export Policy
Sam Laird
Abstract  Download (pdf format, 223KB, 29 pages)

 
1996  back to top
TISD-96-01

Discriminatory Consequences of Non-Discriminatory Standards
Aaditya Mattoo
Abstract   Download (MS Word format, 567KB, 37 pages)

TISD-96-02

National Treatment in the GATS: Corner-Stone or Pandora’s Box
Aaditya Mattoo
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 137KB, 40 pages)

TISD-96-03

The Government Procurement Agreement: Implications of Economic Theory
Aaditya Mattoo
Abstract  Download (MS Word format, 123KB, 32 pages)

Copies of papers can be requested from the ERSD divisional secretariat. Request papers by number (e.g. ERSD-2009-16) and title, and PLEASE include your mailing address.

 

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