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ERSD-2017-11: Provisions on electronic commerce in regional trade agreements

Jose-Antonio Monteiro and Robert Teh

ERSD-2017-10: Georgia's post-accession structural reform challenges

G. Arveladze and Maarten Smeets

ERSD-2017-09: The falling elasticity of global trade to economic activity: Testing the demand channel

Marc Auboin and Floriana Borino

ERSD-2017-08: Interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and its relevance to the implementation of the WTO Agreements

Xiaoping Wu

ERSD-2017-07: Trade issues affecting disaster response

Michael Roberts and Nazia Mohammed

ERSD-2017-06: Does trade openness contribute to driving financing flows for development?

Jean Brun and Sèna Kimm Gnangnon

ERSD-2017-05: An empirical assessment of the economic effects of WTO accession and its commitments

Vicky Chemutai and Hubert Escaith

ERSD-2017-04: The revised WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA): Key design features and significance for global trade and development

Robert D. Anderson and Anna Caroline Müller

ERSD-2017-03: Plurilateral trade agreements: An escape route for the WTO?

Rudolf Adlung and Hamid Mamdouh

ERSD-2017-02: Accumulating trade costs and competitiveness in global value chains

Antonia Diakantoni, Hubert Escaith, Michael Roberts and Thomas Verbeet

ERSD-2017-01: Why do trade finance gaps persist: Does it matter for trade and development?

Marc Auboin and Alisa DiCaprio

ERSD-2016-14: Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement: From vision to reality

Nora Neufeld

ERSD-2016-13: Typology of environment-related provisions in regional trade agreements

Jose-Antonio Monteiro

ERSD-2016-12: Provisions on small and medium-sized enterprises in regional trade agreements

Jose-Antonio Monteiro

ERSD-2016-11: Understanding trade in digitized ideas: What are the statistical challenges?

Joscelyn Magdeleine and Andreas Maurer

ERSD-2016-10: Estimating trade policy effects with structural gravity

Roberta Piermartini and Yoto Yotov

ERSD-2016-09: Trade, testing and toasters: Conformity assessment procedures and the TBT Committee

Devin McDaniels and Marianna Karttunen

ERSD-2016-08: General equilibrium trade policy analysis with structural gravity

Mario Larch and Yoto Yotov

ERSD-2016-07: A survey of investment provisions in regional trade agreements

Vasyl Chornyi, Marianna Nerushay and Jo-Ann Crawford

ERSD-2016-06: Has the multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free market access provided a breakthrough in the Least developed countries' export performance?

Sèna Kimm Gnangnon and Shishir Priyadarshi

ERSD-2016-05: Reducing trade costs in LDCs: The role of Aid for Trade

Rainer Lanz, Michael Roberts and Sainabou Taal

ERSD-2016-04: Supply chain finance and SMEs: Evidence from international factoring data

Marc Auboin, Harry Smythe and Robert Teh

ERSD-2016-03: Making (small) firms happy: The heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures

Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Orefice and Roberta Piermartini

ERSD-2016-02: TBT and Trade Facilitation Agreements: Leveraging linkages to reduce trade costs

Serra Ayral

ERSD-2016-01: Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective

Hubert Escaith

ERSD-2015-11: Covered or not covered: That is the question - Services classification and its implications for specific commitments under the GATS

Ruosi Zhang

ERSD-2015-10: Aid for trade, foreign direct investment and export upgrading in recipient countries

Sèna Kimm Gnangnon and Michael Roberts

ERSD-2015-09: TBT provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: To what extent do they go beyond the WTO TBT Agreement?

Ana Cristina Molina and Vira Khoroshavina

ERSD-2015-08: Charting the evolving landscape of services trade policies: Recent patterns of protection and liberalization

Martin Roy

ERSD-2015-07: Special compulsory licences for export of medicines: Key features of WTO members' implementing legislation

Roger Kampf

ERSD-2015-06: Improving the availability of trade finance in developing countries: An assessment of remaining gaps

Marc Auboin

ERSD-2015-05: Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade

Alberto Osnago, Roberta Piermartini and Nadia Rocha

ERSD-2015-04: Agricultural trade and development: A value chain perspective

Miet Maertens and Johan Swinnen

ERSD-2015-03: Services and global value chains: Some evidence on servicification of manufacturing and services networks

Rainer Lanz and Andreas Maurer

ERSD-2015-02: Export quality in advanced and developing economies: Evidence from a new dataset

Christian Henn, Chris Papageorgiou and Nikola Spatafora

ERSD-2015-01: The layers of the IT Agreement's trade impact

Christian Henn and Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan

ERSD-2014-23: Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO

Valeria Groppo and Roberta Piermartini

ERSD-2014-22: Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates

Antonia Diakantoni and Hubert Escaith

ERSD-2014-21: The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments: Insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Robert D. Anderson, Claudia Locatelli, Anna Caroline Müller and Philippe Pelletier

ERSD-2014-20: Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects: Potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Nicholas C. Niggli and Kodjo Osei-Lah

ERSD-2014-19: Intellectual property rights protection and export diversification: The application of utility model laws

Kimm Gnangnon and Constance Besse Moser

ERSD-2014-18: Trade policy substitution: Theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Cosimo Beverelli, Mauro Boffa and Alexander Keck

ERSD-2014-17: Global production with export platforms

Felix Tintelnot

ERSD-2014-16: A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation

Cosimo Beverelli, Simon Neumüller and Robert Teh

ERSD-2014-15: Achieving Bangladesh's tourism potential: Linkages to export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy"

Dale Honeck and Md. Shoaib Akhtar

ERSD-2014-14: Intellectual property provisions in regional trade agreements: Revision and update

Raymundo Valdés and Maegan McCann

ERSD-2014-13: The determinants of quality specialization

Jonathan Dingel

ERSD-2014-12: Information frictions and the law of one price: "When the States and the Kingdom became United"

Claudia Steinwender

ERSD-2014-11: Knowledge spillovers through international supply chains

Roberta Piermartini and Stela Rubínová

ERSD-2014-10: The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development: Lessons for the post-2015 development agenda

Shishir Priyadarshi and Trineesh Biswas