Month: April 2014

United States – Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Shrimp and Diamond Sawblades from China: never ending zeroing in the WTO? / Dukgeun Ahn and Patrick Messerlin

Paris

Despite many legal rulings to clarify the WTO inconsistency of zeroing practices, in practically all aspects of antidumping proceedings, the United States declined to categorically rectify the illegal antidumping duties based on zeroing calculation methods. This dispute is merely example… Read moreUnited States – Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Shrimp and Diamond Sawblades from China: never ending zeroing in the WTO? / Dukgeun Ahn and Patrick Messerlin

The Trade Effects of US Anti-dumping Actions against China Post-WTO Entry / Guobing Shen and Xiaolan Fu

Paris

Since China’s entry into the WTO, US anti-dumping (AD) actions against China have increased, particularly with respect to multiple petitions. Distinguishing between US single and multiple petitions, we examine the trade effects of US AD actions against China based on… Read moreThe Trade Effects of US Anti-dumping Actions against China Post-WTO Entry / Guobing Shen and Xiaolan Fu

Evaluating Aid for Trade: A Survey of Recent Studies / Olivier Cadot … [et al.]

Paris

The demand for accountability in ‘Aid-for-Trade’ (AFT) is increasing but monitoring has focused on case studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper reviews recent evidence from a wide range of studies, recognising that a multiplicity of approaches is needed to learn… Read moreEvaluating Aid for Trade: A Survey of Recent Studies / Olivier Cadot … [et al.]

Aid to the Services Sector: Does it Affect Manufacturing Exports? / Esteban Ferro, Alberto Portugal-Perez and John S. Wilson

Paris

Abstract: The authors evaluated the impact of foreign aid to five services sectors (transportation, information and communications technologies (ICT), energy, banking/financial services, and business services) on exports of downstream manufacturing sectors in developing countries. To address the reverse causality between… Read moreAid to the Services Sector: Does it Affect Manufacturing Exports? / Esteban Ferro, Alberto Portugal-Perez and John S. Wilson

Aid for Trade: Do Those Countries that Need it, Get it? / Elisa Gamberoni and Richard Newfarmer

Paris

This paper is designed to help both the beneficiary governments and donors of aid for trade identify countries that are under-performing in trade and which are receiving less aid for trade than their global performance might otherwise suggest is necessary…. Read moreAid for Trade: Do Those Countries that Need it, Get it? / Elisa Gamberoni and Richard Newfarmer

Aid for Trade Effectiveness: Complementarities with Economic Integration / Mariana Vijil

Paris

Abstract: Developing countries are increasingly using regional integration as a main policy lever when pursuing a trade-led growth strategy, and today, ‘deep’ preferential trade agreements go beyond trade policy negotiations and cover trade facilitation issues. Since aid for trade (AfT)… Read moreAid for Trade Effectiveness: Complementarities with Economic Integration / Mariana Vijil

Protection and Performance / Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

Paris

Abstract: We examine the linkages between import policy and export performance, extending classic macroeconomic trade effects to more recent concepts from the modern literature on gravity models. We also examine these effects empirically with a panel of global and bilateral… Read moreProtection and Performance / Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

Governance and Globalisation / Koen Berden, Jeffrey Bergstrand, Eva van Etten

Paris

Abstsract: Unlike the large literature on ‘democracy and trade’, there is a much smaller literature on the effect of the level of democracy in a nation on the level of its foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow. These few studies reveal… Read moreGovernance and Globalisation / Koen Berden, Jeffrey Bergstrand, Eva van Etten

Globalisation and Inter-occupational Inequality: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries / Arne Bigsten, Farzana Munshi

Paris

How does globalisation affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper examines this by focusing on two dimensions of globalisation: openness to trade and openness to capital flows, using a relatively new data set on occupational wages. Estimates from a… Read moreGlobalisation and Inter-occupational Inequality: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries / Arne Bigsten, Farzana Munshi

The Impact of Aid and Public Investment Volatility on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Malimu Museru, Francois Toerien, Sean Gossel

Paris

This study investigates the effects of aid inflows and the volatility of public investment on economic growth in 26 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period from 1992 to 2011. Three volatility variables comprising aid, government revenue, and public investment are… Read moreThe Impact of Aid and Public Investment Volatility on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Malimu Museru, Francois Toerien, Sean Gossel