Trade in fisheries services under the WTO and GATS framework

Market Structure, Trade Liberalization and the Gats

In this paper we examine the interaction between the different modes of market access commitments in services (cross-border and establishment) market structure, and regulation. In this context, we focus on the impact of improved domestic market access for a foreign service provider on a domestic service market. We work with a model where the domestic industry is assumed to be imperfectly compet...

BROKEN PROMISES: TRADE, AGRICULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WTO Trade, Agriculture and Development in the WTO

financial regulation and general agreement on trade in services (wto)

optimal level of regulation and regulatory reform seem to be an undisputed objective . however, in the context of financial regulation there are differences and disagreements over the optimal level of disclosure of information and capital adequacy standards. in this paper, instead of offering a substantive solution , we argue for a competitive process through which the optimal level of disclosu...

Market Structure, Trade Liberalisation and the Gats

MARKET STRUCTURE, TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND THE GATS J.F. Francois and I. Wooton Abstract: In this paper we consider the impact of improved domestic market access for a foreign service provider. We emphasize the interaction between the different modes of market access commitments in services (cross-border and establishment) market structure, and regulation. We work with a model where the domesti...

The WTO Trade Effect

This paper proposes to reexamine the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Taken together in a coherent manner, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification biases, allows general forms of heterogeneous treatment effects, and add...