prospective studies of the potential health consequences of trade and investment treaties, such as the trans-pacific partnership, are critical. these studies can make visible to trade policy-makers the potential negative impacts associated to such treaties and can influence the outcomes of such negotiations. however, few researchers have examined retrospectively the consequences of trade agreem...

Automated negotiation offers new capability for buyers and sellers to efficiently trade goods and services in online markets. In high-dimensional real world negotiations, many agents may communicate with each other over multi-issue products. In this paper, we review soft-computing techniques used in e-negotiation. Although implementation of real world negotiations is very hard but using soft co...

Due to timely process of WTO negotiations, unwillingness of advanced industrial countries to give concessions to developing economies regarding tariff and non-tariff barriers on agricultural commodity imports, the ongoing initiatives in Northern hemisphere to establish new and wider free trading areas which will divert trade out of the market from Asian countries, and ineffectiveness of deepeni...

The study investigates India’s trade prospect with ASEAN countries by analyzing the pattern and trends in India’s bilateral merchandise trade with ASEAN countries and their revealed comp that during last three decades India’s share in ASEAN has increased, but it has been less than that of Japan and China. T more marked in the case of im vis-à-vis ASEAN countries. had been worst in case of its t...

Recent global initiatives on debt relief and development assistance call for increasing aid for trade to the poorest countries. We apply a multi-country computable general equilibrium model, to analyze if aid for trade offers the possibility that, instead of the developing and least developed countries’ being worse off—as so many were as the result of the last round of trade negotiations—they w...

This paper studies two attempts that have been made to stimulate trade among developing countries by means of a trade-preferential system under the auspices of GATT and UNCTAD. It wil! be shown that these attempts have not been successful when measured in terms of the number of countries that have offered so-called "concessions" and the number of products for which substantial tariff cuts have ...

It is generally agreed that making progress towards eradicating hunger worldwide is a moral obligation for the richer countries of the world. The instrument known as food aid is widely regarded as an important vehicle for providing assistance to needy countries. However, fresh debates in the present Doha round of WTO negotiations have brought a renewed interest in food aid issues. The Doha roun...

We use the experimental method to compare second-price auctions to “verifiable” multilateral negotiations in which the sole buyer can credibly reveal to sellers the best price offer it currently holds. We find that transaction prices are lower in verifiable multilateral negotiations than in second-price auctions, despite the two institutions’ seeming equivalence. The difference occurs because l...