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ERSD-2021-2: Trade costs in the global economy: Measurement, aggregation and decomposition

Peter Egger, Mario Larch, Sergey Nigai and Yoto Yotov

ERSD-2021-1: WTO accession and growth: Tang and Wei Redux

André Brotto, Adam Jakubik and Roberta Piermartini

ERSD-2020-15: The value of the Committee on Agriculture: Mapping Q&As to trade flows

Lee Ann Jackson, Federica Maggi, Roberta Piermartini and Stela Rubínová

ERSD-2020-14: The shifting contours of trade in knowledge: The new "trade-related aspects" of intellectual property

Antony Taubman

ERSD-2020-13: Illicit trade and infectious diseases

Cosimo Beverelli and Rohit Ticku

ERSD-2020-12: Patent-related actions taken in WTO members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Xiaoping Wu and Bassam Peter Khazin

ERSD-2020-11: International trade in travel and tourism services: Economic impact and policy responses during the COVID-19 crisis

Panagiotis Barkas, Dale Honeck and Ester Rubio

ERSD-2020-10: Trade policies for a circular economy: What can we learn from WTO experience?

Karsten Steinfatt

ERSD-2020-09: The role of WTO committees through the lens of specific trade concerns raised in the TBT committee

Kian Cassehgari Posada, Emmanuelle Ganne and Roberta Piermartini

ERSD-2020-08: Protectionnisme dans l'assurance et la réassurance africaine: Contributions des Examens de politique commerciale (EPC) des etats membres de l'UEMOA

Hervé Blumenthal and Catherine Hennis-Pierre

ERSD-2020-07: The WTO's TPR coverage of SPS systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michael Kolié

ERSD-2020-06: Trade and environment: What can we learn from trade policy reviews?

Aik Hoe Lim, Sajal Mathur and Gowoon Suk

ERSD-2020-05: The development of trade policies in the Asia and Pacific region over the past 30 years since 1989

Masahiro Hayafuji

ERSD-2020-04: An economic analysis of the US-China trade conflict

Eddy Bekkers and Sofia Schroeter

ERSD-2020-03: Lessons learned and challenges ahead for the WTO Trade Monitoring exercise

Peter Bogetoft Pedersen and Antonia Diakantoni

ERSD-2020-02: The evolution of services trade policy since the Great Recession

Ingo Borchert, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan A. Marchetti and Aaditya Mattoo

ERSD-2020-01: Gender-specific differences in geographical mobility: Evidence from Ghana

Emmanuel Orkoh and Victor Stolzenburg

ERSD-2019-14: Applied services trade policy: A guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Ingo Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan A. Marchetti, Aaditya Mattoo, Ester Rubio and Evgeniia Shannon

ERSD-2019-13: International health worker mobility and trade in services

Antonia Giulia Carzaniga, Ibadat S. Dhillon, Joscelyn Magdeleine and Lihui Xu

ERSD-2019-12: How do natural disasters affect services trade?

Ankai Xu and Amèvi Rocard Kouwoaye

ERSD-2019-11: Footloose global value chains: How trade costs make a difference

Adam Jakubik and Victor Stolzenburg

ERSD-2019-10: The WTO Global Trade Model: Technical documentation

Angel Aguiar Román, Erwin L. Corong, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Eddy Bekkers, Robert Koopman and Robert Teh

ERSD-2019-09: On the effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade: They are positive and large after all

Mario Larch, Jose-Antonio Monteiro, Roberta Piermartini and Yoto Yotov

ERSD-2019-08: Women's economic empowerment: An inherent part of Aid for Trade

Anoush Der Boghossian

ERSD-2019-07: Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment: Trends in WTO members

Anoush Der Boghossian

ERSD-2019-06: How WTO commitments tame uncertainty

Adam Jakubik and Roberta Piermartini

ERSD-2019-05: Product patents and access to innovative medicines in a post-trips-era

Jayashree Watal and Rong Dai

ERSD-2019-04: Potential economic effects of a global trade conflict: Projecting the medium-run effects with the WTO global trade model

Eddy Bekkers and Robert Teh

ERSD-2019-03: Distance, formal and informal institutions in international trade

Rainer Lanz, Woori Lee and Victor Stolzenburg

ERSD-2019-02: The welfare effects of trade policy experiments in quantitative trade models: The role of solution methods and baseline calibration

Eddy Bekkers

ERSD-2019-01: Elevating services: Services trade policy, WTO commitments, and their role in economic development and trade integration

Martin Roy

ERSD-2018-15: Gender-related provisions in regional trade agreements

Jose-Antonio Monteiro

ERSD-2018-14: Investment provisions in preferential trade agreements: Evolution and current trends

Jo-Ann Crawford and Barbara Kotschwar

ERSD-2018-13: E-commerce and developing country-SME participation in global value chains

Rainer Lanz, Kathryn Lundquist, Grégoire Mansio, Andreas Maurer and Robert Teh

ERSD-2018-12: Competition policy, trade and the global economy: Existing WTO elements, commitments in regional trade agreements, current challenges and issues for reflection

Robert D. Anderson, William E. Kovacic, Anna Caroline Müller and Nadezhda Sporysheva

ERSD-2018-11: Addressing tensions and avoiding disputes: Specific trade concerns in the TBT Committee

Kateryna Holzer

ERSD-2018-10: The "China shock" revisited: Insights from value added trade flows

Adam Jakubik and Victor Stolzenburg

ERSD-2018-09: How regional trade agreements deal with disputes concerning their TBT provisions?

Ana Cristina Molina and Vira Khoroshavina

ERSD-2018-08: Digital connectivity & e-commerce: Overview of financing flows and examples of aid for trade support

Theo Mbise, Sainabou Taal, Michael Roberts and Frans Lammersen

ERSD-2018-07: WTO trade monitoring ten years on: Lessons learned and challenges ahead

Peter Bogetoft Pedersen, Antonia Diakantoni, Carlos Pérez del Castillo and Amaliia Mkhitarian

ERSD-2018-06: How does the regular work of WTO influence regional trade agreements?

Devin McDaniels, Ana Cristina Molina and Erik Wijkström

ERSD-2018-05: Specialization within global value chains: The role of additive transport costs

Rainer Lanz and Roberta Piermartini

ERSD-2018-04: Recent trade dynamics in Asia: Examples from specific industries

Marc Auboin and Floriana Borino

ERSD-2018-03: Can economic sanctions be effective?

Maarten Smeets

ERSD-2018-02: Competition agency guidelines and policy initiatives regarding the application of competition law vis-à-vis intellectual property: An analysis of jurisdictional approaches and emerging directions

Robert D. Anderson, Jianning Chen, Anna Caroline Müller, Daria Novozhilkina, Philippe Pelletier, Nivedita Sen and Nadezhda Sporysheva

ERSD-2018-01: Least-developed countries, transfer of technology and the TRIPS Agreement

Jayashree Watal and Leticia Caminero

ERSD-2017-15: Trade, technology, and prosperity: An account of evidence from a labor-market perspective

Marc-Andreas Muendler

ERSD-2017-14: When bad trade policy costs human lives: tariffs on mosquito nets

Arne Klau

ERSD-2017-13: The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights: The evolution of thought underlying policy change

Robert D. Anderson and William E. Kovacic

ERSD-2017-12: The contribution of services trade policies to connectivity in the context of aid for trade

Martin Roy