background negotiations surrounding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) trade and investment agreement have recently concluded. although trade and investment agreements, part of a broader shift to global economic integration, have been argued to be vital to improved economic growth, health, and general welfare, these agreements have increasingly come under scrutiny for their direct and indirect...

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, international trade was particularly important to guarantee supply of medical and other goods. This article analyses trade-related policies found in World Trade Organization (WTO) system from February October 2020. We used Database WTO members’ notifications on COVID-19, including information 198 notifications. It allows us observe trend notifications, countries prod...

We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and technological spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns: countries that accumulate capital faster than average experience declining export prices, depressing the rate of return to capital and discouraging fur...

The sale and consumption of illicit tobacco increases consumption, impacts public health, reduces tax revenue and provides an argument against tax increases. Thailand has some of the best tobacco control policies in Southeast Asia with one of the highest tobacco tax rates, but illicit trade has the potential to undermine these policies and needs investigating. Two approaches were used to assess...

This study investigates how environmental policies impact trade and innovation in goods. We make two major contributions to the economic debate. First, we extract a set of information from WTO Environmental Database (EDB) through natural language processing techniques that could be useful for future research policy analysis. Second, use this data test hypotheses on measures trade.