BACKGROUND Trade agreements are increasingly recognised as playing an influential role in shaping national food environments and the availability and nutritional quality of the food supply. Global monitoring of food environments and trade policies can strengthen the evidence base for the impact of trade policy on nutrition, and support improved policy coherence. Using the INFORMAS trade monitor...

I construct a theory of trade agreements in which nations negotiate over both domestic policies and trade policies in a monopolistically competitve setting. My theory contributes to two trade policy questions: …rst, what problems do trade agreements solve? Second, what explains the evolution of domestic subsidy rules between the GATT and the WTO? I show that trade agreements must solve a …rm-de...

We evaluate the prospect of forming voluntary global warming agreements in which membership entitles a country to trade emission permits with other member states. To do so, we construct a calibrated general equilibriummodel that jointly describes the world economy and the strategic incentives that guide the design of national abatement policies. Countries choose their initial permit endowments ...

We apply the gravity model to examine the effects of the Andean Community and Mercosur on both intra-regional and intra-industrial trade in the period 1980-1997. After accounting for size and distance effects, the Andean Community preferential trade agreements had a significant effect on both the differentiated and reference products, in particular capital intensive goods. In contrast, Mercosur...

This study analyzes the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on bilateral trade, focusing Japan’s FTAs. In particular, we examined both static and dynamic effects at aggregated disaggregated levels, using two datasets between 1995 2016 for Japanese only world trade. For analysis, investigated overall effect individual Regarding considered time since their enactment. Our results indicate that...

There is growing international concern about the risks posed by direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription pharmaceuticals, including via the internet. Recent trade agreements negotiated by the United States, however, incorporate provisions that may constrain national regulation of DTCA. Some provisions explicitly mention DTCA; others enable foreign investors to seek compensation if ...