We are concerned with trade in transport services (not cabotage but rather international shipping, transport, and related logistical services) and the importance of competition and market structure in the sector. We examine implications of liberalization for profits, trade, and national gains from trade. Though past GATS maritime negotiations involved the maritime nations, we also flag interest...

We are concerned with trade in transport services (not cabotage but rather international shipping, transport, and related logistical services) and the importance of competition and market structure in the sector. We examine implications of liberalization for profits, trade, and national gains from trade. Though past GATS maritime negotiations involved the maritime nations, we also flag interest...

How do domestic political institutions affect the outcomes of international trade negotiations? Specifically, are the aggregate trade barriers agreed upon by a democratic pair lower than those by a pair composed of a democracy and an autocracy? I revisit these important questions by highlighting some problematic aspect of the analysis by Mansfield, Milner, and Rosendorff (2000). Contrary to the...

As discussion continues in the hope of launching a new round of negotiations at the next ministerial meeting at Doha in Qatar in November 2001, and given the increasing attention paid by many environmentalists to the debate over the apparent conflict in trade and environment policy, it is clear that trade and environment issues will loom large at the meeting in Doha. How governments choose to d...

This paper addresses the issues involved in software agents making trade-offs during automated negotiations in which they have information uncertainty and resource limitations. In particular, the importance of being able to make tradeoffs in real-world applications is highlighted and a novel algorithm for performing trade-offs for multi-dimensional goods is developed. The algorithm uses the not...

abstractthis paper examines the impasse in the current doha development round negotiations andasks how the rules of the wto could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the member countries. it considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. as examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

In this paper we propose an automated negotiation system that can efficiently carry out multilateral negotiations with multi-attributes in pervasive computing environments. For the multilateral negotiation system proposed in our study, an e-commerce framework for pervasive computing environments in which the components can dynamically join and disjoin a virtual market is also introduced. This f...

1 The fifth WTO ministerial conference held at Cancun in mid-September 2003 was intended to define more precisely the negotiating parameters for the Doha Development Agenda, the round of negotiations launched at the fourth WTO ministerial conference held in Doha in November 2001. The meeting was terminated following an inability to reach consensus on whether to start negotiations on the so-call...