T paper makes an important contribution to the debate on the potential gains from further global trade liberalization under the proposed World Trade Organization’s (WTO) round of negotiations, WTO2000. We know from the Uruguay Round (UR) that the results of applied general equilibrium (AGE) simulations can influence the stance of negotiators. Likewise, the potential for results (such as these) ...

recent strong growth of china’s exports has elevated the country to a rising global economic power and caused geo-political concern to policy-makers in the country and its trading partners world-wide. what are the determinants of this growth, how has it affected major economies in asean (world bank, 2009) in particular, and what kind of evidence-based responses are required and appropriate? the...

Underlying the emergence of a global administrative law is the recognition of the fact that increased global interdependence has led to a situation where decision making has moved beyond national boundaries. This research project is an effort to view diverse international governance structures from an administrative law perspective so as to identify some patterns of commonality and connection s...

∗Akgul is a Ph.D. candidate with the Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. †Villoria is a Research Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics with the Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. ‡Hertel is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and the Executive Director of the Center for Global Trade An...

a r t i c l e i n f o The current literature suggests that tariff escalation (TE) lowers the competitiveness of processing sectors. Coffee and cotton are agricultural products that face the problem of TE in developing countries, where we observe low global coffee product export shares but high global cotton textile export shares, posing a question on TE's impact on competitiveness. This paper e...