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Policy Responses to the Crisis Adjustment to Trade Antidumping Dispute Settlement Doha Round Governance Preferences, Special and Differential Treatment Regional Trade Agreements Rules, Including Competition and Government Procurement Services Trade Trade and Development More Topics… Updated! Policy Responses to the Crisis The Global Resort to Antidumping, Safeguards, and other Trade Remedies Amidst the Economic Crisis, *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper,* n°5051, September 2009. Chad P. Bown Protectionism Continues Its Climb: Spike in “Safeguard” Use is Major Contributor to 12.1% Global Increase in Industry Demands for New Import Restrictions during Second Quarter of 2009, *A Monitoring Update to the Global Antidumping Database, July 2009. Chad P. Bown Protectionism Increases and Spreads: Global Use of Trade Remedies Rises by 18.8% in First Quarter 2009, A Monitoring Update to the Global Antidumping Database, May 2009. Chad P. Bown Protectionism Is on the Rise: Antidumping Investigations, in Richard Baldwin and Simon Evenett (eds.), The Collapse of Global Trade, Murky Protectionism, and the Crisis: Recommendations for the G20, VoxEU.org, March 2009. Chad P. Bown Protectionism Is on the Rise as Antidumping Import Restriction Use up 31% in 2008, A Monitoring Update to the Global Antidumping Database* - March 2009. Chad P. Bown Trade-Related Policy Responses to the Crisis: A Stock Taking, *PREM Notes - Trade Policy, n°139, July 2009.* Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, and Olivier Cattaneo Policy Responses to the Crisis: Implications for the WTO and International Cooperation, *VvoxEu.org, July 2009. Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman Smoke in the Water, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, n°5050 - September 2009.* Foletti, Liliana, Marco Fugazza, Alessandro Nicita, and Marcelo Olarreaga First Report on State Measures that May Affect Trading Partners’ Commercial Interests, *Globaltradealert.org, July 2009.* The Rise of Foreign Direct Investment Protectionism, *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, n°5052 - September 2009* Karl Sauvant Crisis and Protection in the Automotive Industry: A Global Value Chain Perspective, *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, n°5060 - September 2009.* Timothy Sturgeon, Johannes van Biesebroek Exchange Rates During the Crisis, *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, n°5059 - September 2009. Sebastian Weber, Charles Wyplosz Protectionism and the Crisis: The Need for Increased Vigilance - June 29, 2009* Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Olivier Cattaneo Avoiding 1930s-Style Protectionism: Lessons for Today - May 2009 Douglas A. Irwin A “Significant Slippage” in Protectionism? Not Yet - May 2009 Patrick Messerlin Non-Tariff Measures: Business Views of Recent Trends Mondher Mimouni; Carolin Averbeck, Olga Skorobogatova and Elisa Gamberoni The Global Financial Crisis and International Economic Law Anne Van Aaken and Jürgen Kurtz Smoke in the Water - June 2009 Liliana Foletti, Marco Fugazza, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga The Global Resort to Antidumping, Safeguards, and other Trade Remedies Amidst the Economic Crisis - June 2009 Chad P. Bown Trade Finance in Crisis: Market Adjustment or Market Failure? - June 2009 Jean-Pierre Chauffour and Thomas Farole The Devil is in the Details: The Implementation of Stimulus Packages and their Effects on International Commerce - July 2009 Simon J. Evenett Exchange Rates During the Crisis Sebastian Weber and Charles Wyplosz Restrictions on Mode 4 Access: Recent Evidence Biswajit Dhar and Girish Srivastava The Rise of Foreign Direct Investment Protectionism Karl P. Sauvant Responses to the Economic and Financial Crisis: Whither Competition? - June 2009 Frédéric Jenny Green Growth and the Crisis Ronald Steenblik The Financial Crisis and Financial Nationalism - June 2009 Stijn Claessens Agriculture: The Dog that Did not Bark? Tim Josling and Stefan Tangermann Review and Analysis of Protectionist Actions in the Textile and Apparel Industries - June 2009 Stacey Frederick and Gary Gereffi Is the Crisis Provoking Protection in Services? - June 2009 Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo Adjustment to Trade Facilitating Adjustment to Trade in the WTO System - March 2005 Chad P. Bown, Rachel McCulloch Antidumping New! The Pattern of Antidumping and Other Types of Contingent Protection, PREM Note, October 21, 2009 Protectionism Increases and Spreads: Global Use of Trade Remedies Rises by 18.8% in First Quarter 2009, A Monitoring Update to the Global Antidumping Database Chad P. Bown, May 2009 *Updated in July 2009:* Global Antidumping Database Version 5.0 - Protectionism is on the rise, and so is antidumping. With a view to increase transparency in the use of trade remedies, Brandeis University and the World Bank/GTFA have developed a global antidumping database. Chad P. Bown, Brandeis University; The World Bank. Dedicated web-portal. Database featured in major economic newspapers, magazines (e.g. Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Economist), and television broadcasts (Bloomberg). Database used and referred to in major academic work (e.g. articles in Review of International Economics, World Economy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Review of World Economics). Database featured in flagship reports of international organizations (e.g. WTO, World Trade Report 2009). Database presented in a number of conferences and public events. Dispute Settlement The Case for Tradable Remedies in WTO Dispute Settlement - June 2005 Kyle Bagwell, Petros C. Mavroidis and Robert W. Staiger WTO Dispute Settlement and the Missing Developing Country Cases: Engaging the Private Sector - May 2005 Chad P. Bown, Bernard Hoekman Financial Compensation in the WTO: Improving the Remedies of WTO Dispute Settlement, 2005 Marco Bronckers, Naboth van den Broek, Tariff Retaliation versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements - July 2005 Nuno Limão, Kamal Saggi, Doha Round Policy Brief: Leading with Services: The Dymanics of Transatlantic Negotiations in Services by Patrick Messerlin, Erik van der Marel - July, 2009 Services in Doha: What’s on the Table?, *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper,* No. 4903, April 2009. Published in *Journal of World Trade, vol. 43, No. 5. - October 2009. Batshur Gootiiz, Aaditya Mattoo Governance* Everything You Always Wanted to Know About WTO Accession (but were afraid to ask) by Olivier Cattaneo, Carlos A. Primo Braga, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 5116 - November 2009 Globalization and Corporate Governance - June 2009 Douglas Nelson Can the WTO’s System of Governance Rise to the Challenge of Sustainable Development? Simon J. Evenett Preferences, Special and Differential Treatment Trade Preferences and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries: Introduction Bernard Hoekman, Caglar Özden Operationalizing the Concept of Policy Space in the WTO: Beyond Special and Differential Treatment - October 2004 Bernard Hoekman Economic Policy Responses to Preference Erosion: From Trade as Aid to Aid for Trade - August 2005 Bernard Hoekman, Susan Prowse Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization - July 2005 Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman, and Miriam Manchin Preferential vs. Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Evidence and Open Questions - June 2005 Nuno Limão Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization - 2005 Nuno Limão, Marcelo Olarreaga Can Special Trade Measures Help Development when Trade Tools are Weak and the Conditions for Development are Uncertain? - May 2005 Sheila Page Preference Utilisation and Tariff Reduction in EU Imports from ACP Countries - May 2005 Miriam Manchin, Tinbergen Institute AGOA and Apparel: Who Captures the Tariff Rent in the Presence of Preferential Market Access? - August 2004 Marcelo Olarreaga, Caglar Özden Price Effects of Preferential Market Access: The Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Apparel Sector - February 2004 Caglar Özden, Gunjan Sharma Regional Trade Agreements Changes in Cross-Border Trade Costs in the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, 2001-2008, *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 5031 - August 2009* Bernard Hoekman, Jamel Zarrouk An Assessment of Changes in Cross-Border Trade: Costs in the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, 2001-2008”, *MENA Knowledge and Learning Fast Brief, No. 28 - May 2009.* Bernard Hoekman, Jamel Zarrouk Changes in Cross-Border Trade Costs in the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, 2001-2008 - June 2009 Bernard Hoekman and Jamel Zarrouk MNA Knowledge and Learning - Fast Brief - An Assessment of Changes in Cross-Border Trade: Costs in the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, 2001-2008 - May 2009 Bernard Hoekman and Jamel Zarrouk From Euro-Med Partnership to European Neighborhood: Deeper Integration à la Carte and Economic Development - July 2005 Bernard Hoekman Designing North South Trade Agreements to Promote Economic Development - June 2005 Bernard Hoekman EU-Developing Country FTA’s: Overview and Analysis - May 2005 Joseph F. Francois, Matthew McQueen, and Ganeshan Wignaraja If I don’t do it, somebody else will (or won’t) - Testing Compliance of PTAs with the Multilateral Rules Petros Mavroidis Rules, Including Competition and Government Procurement International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies - August 2005 Simon J. Evenett, Bernard Hoekman International Cooperation on Domestic Policies: Lessons from the WTO Competition Policy Debate - April 2005 Bernard Hoekman, Kamal Saggi Services Trade Trade in Health Services: What's in it for Developing Countries? by Olivier Cattaneo *World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 5115 - November 2009* Services Policy Reform and Economic Growth in Transition Economies, 1990-2004 - April 2005 Felix Eschenbach, Bernard Hoekman Services Policy Reform and Commitments in Trade Agreements: An Analysis of Transition Economies - August 2005 Felix Eschenbach Trade and Development “Aid for Trade” - Increasing Support for Trade Adjustment and Integration - A Proposal - June 2005 Susan Prowse Making the WTO More Supportive of Development: How to Help Developing Countries Integrate into the Global Trading System - March 2005 Bernard Hoekman More Topics… “Socially Responsible” Trade Integration: A Political Economy Perspective Thierry Verdier Sticking to the Rules: Quantifying the Market Access that is Potentially Protected by WTO -sanctioned Trade Retaliation - January 2005 Simon J. Evenett Rags in the High Rent District: Rhetoric and Reality in the Elimination of Textile and Clothing Quotas - April 2005 Joseph Francois, Julia Woerz Market Structure in Services and Market Access in Goods - June 2005 Joseph Francois, Ian Wooton Do We Need an Undertaker for the Single Undertaking? Considering the Angles of Variable Geometry - October 2004 Philip I. Levy The Case for Industrial Policy: A Critical Survey Howard Pack, Kamal Saggi Last updated on Nov 11, 2009

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