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Global Trade Negotiations Summary Papers Links

General Papers

Anderson, James. "Why Do Nations Trade (So Little?)" Boston College, August 1999.

Anderson, James E. and Eric van Wincoop. "Borders, Trade and Welfare." Brookings Trade Forum 2001, September 2001.

Anderson, Kym.  Measuring Effects of Trade Policy Distortions: How far have we come?. CIES, April 2002.

Anderson, Kym. "Economy-wide Dimensions of Trade Policy and Reform." Center for International Economic Studies, April 2001.

Anderson, Kym. Globalization, WTO and ASEAN. Centre for International Economic Studies, February 2001.  

Anderson, Kym. "The WTO Agenda for the New Millennium." Unversity of Adelaide, January 1999.

Anderson, Kym and Shunli Yao. "How Can South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Gain from the Next WTO Round?" Centre for International Economic Studies, November 2001.  

Antweiler, Werner and Trefler, Daniel. "Increasing Returns and All That: A View from Trade." National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2000. 

Bacchetta, Philippe and Wincoop, Eric. "Does Exchange Rate Stability Increase Trade and Welfare?" University of Lausanne and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, September 1999. 

Bagwell, Kyle and Staiger, Robert. "Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions." NBER, August 1999. 

Bagwell, Kyle and Staiger, Rob. "GATT-Think." National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2000. 

Bagwell, Kyle and Staiger, Robert. "Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Bilateral Opportunism and the Rules of the GATT." NBER, April 1999.

Baldwin, Robert. Openness and Growth: What’s the Empirical Relationship? March 2003.

Barrios, Salvador; Gorg, Holger and Strobl, Eric. "Multinational Firms and New Trade Theory:  Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis." University of Nottingham, December 2000.

Bernard, Andrew et al. "Plants and Productivity in International Trade." National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2000. 

Bird, Graham, and Ramkishen, Rajan. "Economic Globalization: How Far and How Much Further?" Center For International Economic Studies, April 2001. 

Bochniarz, Henryka. "Is the WTO Still Relevant to the Global Economy?" International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, March 1999. 

Bordo, Michael; Eichengreen, Barry and Irwin, Douglas. "Is Globalization Today Really Different from Globalization One Hundred Years Ago?" NBER, June 1999. 

Bown, Chad P. On the Economic Success of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement. Brandeis University, December 2001. 

Busch, Mark and Reinhardt, Eric. "Industry Location and Trade Policy in Europe." Paper presented for the Yale Conference on the Political Geography of Trade, October 2000. 

Cadot, Olivier and Daniel Webber. "Banana Splits: Policy Process, Particularistic Interests, Political Capture and Money in Trans-Atlantic Trade Politics." EUI Working Paper, October 2001.

Cadot, Olivier; Jaime de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga. "Lobbying and the Structure of Tariff Protection in Poor and Rich Countries." World Bank, February 2001.

Casella, Alessandra and Rauch, James. "Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade." Columbia University and University of California-San Diego, February 1999. 

Chang, Pao-Li. "Endogenous Tariff Formation with Intra-Industry Trade." Research Seminar in International Economics at the University of Michigan, April 2002. 

Chavance, Bernard. "The Historical Conflict of Socialism and Capitalism, and the Post-Socialist Transformation." Paper prepared for UNCTAD X, December 1999.

Choudhri, Ehsan; Hakura, Dalia. "International Trade in Manufactured Products: A Ricardo-Heckscher-Ohlin Explanation with Monopolistic Competition." International Monetary Fund, April 2001

Croome, John. "The Present Outlook for Trade Negotiations in the World Trade Organization." World Bank. October 1998.

Cudmore, E. and J Whalley. Border Delays and Trade Liberalization. February 2003.

Protection." Center for International Economic Studies, March 2000.

Das, Dilip. "An Action Agenda for the Forthcoming WTO Round: A Post-Seattle Perspective." Asian Development Bank, July 2000.

Das, Dilip. "Debacle at Seattle: The Way the Cookie Crumbled." Asian Development Bank, July 2000.

Das, Dilip. "The Millennium Round: The Art of the Possible." Asian Development Bank-Manila, September 1999.

Davis, Donald R., and David E. Weinstein. "The Factor Content of Trade." National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2001.

Davis, Donald R. and David E. Weinstein. "What Role for Empirics in International Trade?" National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2001.

De Bievre, Dirk. The WTO and Domestic Coalitions: Negotiated and Judicial Trade Policy in the EU. September 2002.

Djankov, Simeon and Freund, Caroline. "Disintegration and Trade Flows: Evidence from the Former Soviet Union." World Bank, June 2000. 

Diehl, Markus. "International Trade in Intermediate Goods: The Case of the Automobile Industry." Kiel Institute for World Economics, February 2001.

Dominguez, Kathryn and Tesar, Linda. "Trade and Exposure." National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2001.

Dominguez, Kathryn and Tesar, Linda. "A Re-Examination of Exchange Rate Exposure." National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2001.

Dutt, Amitava and Rao, J. Mohan. "Globalization and its Social Discontents: The Case of India." Center for Economic Policy Analysis, February 2000. >

Estevadeordal, Antoni and Alan M. Taylor. Testing Trade Theory in Ohlin's Time. NBER, March 2002.

Estevadeoral, Antoni and Alan M. Taylor. "A Century of Missing Trade?" National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2001.

Fidrmuc, Jarko. "Integration, Disintegration and Trade in Europe: Evolution of Trade Relations During the 1990s." Oesterreichische Nationalbank, June 2000.

Flath, David. "A Perspective on Japanese Trade Policy and US-Japan Trade Friction." Columbia Business School, October 1998.

Fordham, Benjamin and McKeown, Timothy. "Selection and Influence, Interest Groups and Congressional Influence on Trade Policy." Paper presented for the Yale Conference on the Political Geography of Trade, October 2000. 

Francois, Joseph. "Factor Mobility, Economic Integration, and the Location of Industry." Center for International Economic Studies, June 2001.

Garrett, Geoffrey. "The Causes of Globalization." Leitner Center at Yale University, April 2000.

Gatti, Roberta. "Corruption and Trade Tariffs, or a Case for Uniform Tariffs." World Bank, November 1999.

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Pavcnik, Nina. The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization. January 2003.

Gruber, Lloyd. "Power Politics and the Free Trade Bandwagon." University of Chicago, September 1999.

Gruber, Lloyd. "Rethinking the Rational Foundations of Supranational Governance: Lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement." University of Chicago, September 1999.

Hadass, Yael and Williamson, Jeffrey. "Terms of Trade Shocks and Economic Performance 1870-1940." National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2001.

Hakim, Peter; Robert Litan; Margaret Hill; Robert Pastor and Andres Rozental.  "The Future of North America: Beyond Free Trade. [HTML]" The Brookings Institution, February 2002.

Hallak, Juan Carlos, "The Effect of Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality on the Direction of International Trade 2002," February, 2003.

Harcourt, Timothy. "Why Australia Needs Exports: The Economic Case for Exporting." Australian Trade Commission, 2002.

Harrigan, James and Zakrajsek, Egon. "Factor Supplies and Specialization in the World Economy." Federal Reserve Bank of New York, August 2000.

Harrigan, James. "Specialization and the Volume of Trade: Do the Data Obey the Laws?" NBER, December 2001.

Hertel, Thomas; Hoekman, Bernard, and Martin, Will. "Developing Countries and a New Round of WTO Negotiations." World Bank, April 2000.

Hewison, Kevin. "Localism in Thailand: a Study of Globalisation and its Discontents." CSGR, September 1999.

Hine, Robert; Torres, Jose and Wright, Peter. "Does Trade Liberalisation Damage Firms in Large Countries? Cost and Size Asymmetries in Intra-Industry Trade." University of Nottingham, September 2000. 

Holmes, Thomas. The Home Market and the Pattern of Trade: Round ThreeThe Home Market and the Pattern of Trade: Round Three.  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.  April, 2002.

Howse, Robert and Nicolaidis, Kalypso. "Legitimacy and Global Governance: Why Constitutionalizing the WTO is a Step Too Far." Paper presented at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University, June 2000. 

IISD. "What's It All For? Setting Clear Goals for the World Trade Organization." International Institute for Sustainable Development, August 2001.

Irwin, Douglas A. "Did Import Substitution Promote Growth in the Late Ninteenth Century?" NBER, February 2002.

Irwin, Douglas and Tervio, Marko. "Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century." National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2000.

Irwin, Douglas. "Ohlin vs. Stolper-Samuelson?" National Bureau for Economic Research, April 2000.

Keohane, Robert and Nye, Joseph. "The Club Model of Multilateral Cooperation and the WTO: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy." Paper presented at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University, June 2000. 

Khor, Martin. "Proposed New Issues in the WTO and the Interests of Developing Countries." Third World Network, September 2000.

Kibritcioglu, Aykut. "Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?" August 2001.

Klein, Michael W. "Dollarization and Trade." NBER, April 2002.

Kraay, Aart and Juame Ventura. "Trade Integration and Risk-Sharing." National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2001.

Kubota, Keiko. "Trade Negotiations in the Presence of Network Externalities." World Bank, April 2000.

Lal, Deepak.  Free Trade and Laissez Faire.  University of California, LA, October, 2002.

Larsen, Kurt et al. "Trade in Educational Services: Trends and Emerging Issues."  OECD Working Paper, May 2002.

Laussel, Didier and Riezman, Ray. "The Sources of Protectionist Drift in Representative Democracies." Paper presented for the Yale Conference on the Political Geography of Trade, October 2000. 

Leibowitz, Lewis E. "Safety Valve or Flash Point? The Worsening Conflict between US Trade Laws and WTO Rules." Center for Trade Policy Studies, November 2001.

Leigh, Andrew and Wolfers, Justin and Zitzewitz, Eric. What do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq? Stanford Graduate School of Business. Research Paper. March 2003.

Limão, Nuno and Arvind Panagariya. "Why is there an Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy?" Economics Working Paper Archive, December 2002.

Lindert, Peter and Jeffrey Williamson. "Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?" National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2001. 

Lindsey, Brink et al.. "Seattle and Beyond: A WTO Agenda for the New Millennium." Cato Institute, November 1999.

Litan, Robert. "Moving Toward an Open World Economy: The Next Phase." Brookings Institute Paper presented at the Seattle Ministerial Conference, November 1999.

Lockwood, Benjamin. "A Note on the Robustness of the Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index." Warwick University, August 2001.

Lumenga-Neso, Olivier; Marcelo Olarreaga, and Maurice Schiff. "On 'Indirect' Trade-Related Research and Development Spillovers." World Bank, April 2001.

Maechler, Andrea. "The Politics of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of FDI." Swiss National Bank, July 2000.

Malmgren, Harald. "Trade and Technology in the Single Global Marketplace." Cordell Hull Institute, April 2000.

Marcouiller, Douglas. "Hijacking, Hold-Up and International Trade." Boston College, August 2000.

Markusen, James R. and Keith E. Maskus. "A Unified Approach to Intra-Industry Trade and Direct Foreign Investment." National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2001.

Mathur, Somesh K. Multilateral Trading System: Doha Round and Beyond. (Short commentary). July 2002.

Mayda, Anna Maria and Dani Rodrik.  "Why are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others?" Kennedy School of Government, January 2002.

McKibbin, Warwick. "Trade Liberalization in a Dynamic Setting: Implications of a New WTO Round." Brookings Institute, September 1999.

Medhora, Rohinton. "Emerging Issues in International Trade Relations: Some Research Directions." International Development Research Center. 1997

Melitz, Mark J. The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity.  NBER, April 2002.

Michalopoulos, Constantine. "Developing Country Goals and Strategies for the Millennium Round." World Bank, July 1999.

Min, Hong-Ghi. "Inequality, the Price of Nontradables, and the Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence." World Bank, January 2002.

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Jan I Haaland and Anthony Venables. "Multinational Corporations and Global Production Networks: The Implications for Trade Policy." CEPR, March 2002.

Nicita, Alessandro and Ollareaga, Marcelo. "Exports and Information Spillovers." World Bank, November 2000.

Nicita, Alessandro and Marcelo Olarreaga. "Trade and Production, 1976-99." The World Bank, November 2001.

Noll, Roger. "Regulatory Reform and International Trade Policy." Stanford University, July 1999.

O'Rourke, Kevin and Sinnott, Richard. "The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence." Brookings Institute, April 2001.

Ostry, Sylvia. "WTO: Institutional Design for Better Governance." Paper presented at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University, June 2000. 

Ottaviano, Gianmarco. "Ad Usum Delphini: A Primer in 'New Economic Geography.'" European University Institute, June 1999.

Overman, Henry G.; Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables. "The Economic Geography of Trade Production and Income: A Survey of Empirics." Center for Economic Policy Research, September 2001.

Pahre, Robert. "Is MFN Better for Spreading?" Paper presented for the Yale Conference on the Political Geography of Trade, October 2000. 

Raustiala, Kal. "Law, Liberalization, and International Narcotics Trafficking." New York University School of Law, Fall 1999.

Razeen, Sally. Whither the WTO? A Progress Report on the Doha Round. Trade Policy Analysis. March 2003.

Rodriguez, Francisco and Rodrik, Dani. "Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence." NBER, April 1999.

Roessler, Frieder. "The Institutional Balance Between the Judicial and the Political Organs of the WTO." Paper presented at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University, June 2000. 

Rollo, Jim and Winters, L. Alan. "Domestic Regulation and Trade: Subsidiarity and Governance Challenges for the WTO." Trade and Development Centre, September 1999. (Draft- not for citation)

Rose, Andrew. "Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?." NBER Working Paper, November 2002

Rose, Andrew K.  "Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?."  Draft, November 2002.

Rose, Andrew K. "One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade." NBER, March 2002.

Sachs, Jeffrey; Woo, Wing Thye. China's Growth after WTO Membership. Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1. January 2003.

Schiff, Maurice. "Will the Real Natural Trading Partner Please Stand Up?" World Bank, March 2001. 

Schiff, M., Wang, Y., and Olarreaga, M. Trade-related technology diffusion and the dynamics of North-South and South-South integration. June 2002.

Schot, Peter. "One Size Fits All? Specialization, Trade, and Income Inequality." Yale University, October 1999.

Schott, Peter K. "One Size Fits All? Heckscher-Ohlin Specialization in Global Production." National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2001.

Shafaeddin, Mehda. "Free Trade or Fair Trade? An Inquiry into the Causes of Failure in Recent Trade Negotiations." UNCTAD, December 2000.

Shang-Jin Wei and Yi Wu. Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from within China. National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2001.

Shrybman, Steve. "Culture, Diversity, and Survival." West Coast Environmental Law, 1999.

Siregar, Reza and Ramkishen Rajan. "Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Indonesia's Trade Performance in the 1990s." Center for International Economic Studies, March 2002.

Smith, Jackie. "Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements." SUNY-Stony Brook, February 2000.

Spanu, Vlad. "Liberalization of the International Trade and Economic Growth: Implications for Both Developed and Developing Countries." Harvard University, May 2003.

Springer, Katrin. "Do We Have to Consider International Capital Mobility in Trade Models?" Kiel Institute of World Economics, December 1999.

Stiglitz, Joseph. "Two Principles for the Next Round Or, How to Bring Developing Countries in from the Cold." International Trade and Development Centre, September 1999.

Sykes, Alan. "'Efficient Protection' Through WTO Rulemaking." Paper presented at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University, June 2000. 

Tenreyo, Silvana.  Gravity Defying Trade.  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.  March 2003.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Globalization or the Age of Transition?: A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System." Fernand Braudel Center, 1999.

Winters, L. Alan. "Trade Policy as Development Policy: Building On Fifty Years' Experience." Paper prepared for UNCTAD X, December 1999.

Yang, Xiaokai and Zhang, Dingsheng. "International Trade and Income Distribution." Center for International Development at Harvard University, June 1999.

Zhou, Dongsheng; Spencer, Barbara; Vertinsky, Ilan. "Strategic Trade Policy with Endogenous Choice of Quality and Asymmetric Costs." National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2000. 

General Resources

Barlow, Maude and Clarke, Tony. "The Battle After Seattle: A Working Paper for Strategic Planning and Action on the WTO." Council of Canadians, January 2000.

Forum Environment & Development. "Reform of the World Trade System or New Round of Liberalisation?" Forum Environment & Development and GermanWatch, September 1999.

HistoryLink, a Seattle-based "encyclopedic history of Seattle," offers  video and photographic archives of the demonstrations in Seattle

International Trade History Reading List compiled by Dr. Susan Aaronson of George Mason University

The Organization of American States Foreign Trade Information System- comprehensive source for information on international trade agreements.

Panagariya, Arvind. Op-Eds published in the Economic Times of India:

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch et al. "WTO: Shrink Or Sink! The Turn-Around Agenda." April 2000

Ricupero, Rubens; Secretary-General of UNCTAD. "Statement to Meeting of Ministers of Trade of Least Developed Countries." November 29, 1999.

Ricupero, Rubens. "Statement to the Third WTO Ministerial Meeting." December 1999

Rodrik, Dani. "Five Simple Principles for World Trade." Center for International Development at Harvard University, November 1999.

US Department of State. "The Language of Trade." Includes chronology, glossary and reference list of acronyms used in international trade.

The United States and the WTO: A Global Trade Agenda. US Government web site on international trade policy.

World Bank. "Entering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000." World Bank, September 1999.

World Trade Organization Seattle Ministerial Statement Draft. International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, September 1999.

Zarsky, Lyuba. "U.S. Arrogance and Incompetence: Reflections on Seattle." Nautilus Institute, January 2000.