The Latest Working Papers  

• U.S.-Japan and U.S.-China Trade Conflict: Export Growth, Reciprocity, and the International Trading System - October 2009
  by Chad P. Bown and Rachel McCulloch
  Focuses on U.S. efforts to restore the reciprocal GATT/WTO market-access bargain in the face of such large imbalances and the significant spillovers to the international trading system.
  Working Paper 5102
  
   
• Remittance Stability, Cyclicality and Stabilizing Impact in Developing Countries - October 2009
  by Ileana C. Neagu and Maurice Schiff
  Examines stability, cyclical nature, and stabilizing impact of remittances in comparison with the same three features for other foreign-exchange inflows, namely foreign direct investment and official development aid.
  Working Paper 5077 
  
  
• Aid for Trade Facilitation - September 2009
  by Matthias Helble, Catherine Mann, John S. Wilson
  Considers how to target aid most effectively to increase trade, a fundamental question related to the crisis and policy debate over restarting the world trading system
  Working Paper 5064 
  
  
• The Global Resort to Antidumping, Safeguards, and other Trade Remedies Amidst the Economic Crisis - September 2009
  by Chad P. Bown
  Examines new data on the marked increase in import-restricting trade remedy use beginning in 2008 that increasingly affects "South-South" trade, with a special emphasis on exports from China.
  Working Paper 5051 
  
  
• The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration? - September 2009
  by Bernard Hoekman and Caglar Ozden
  Furthering services trade dimensions in the European Union'’s trade agreements offer significant potential gains.
  Working Paper 5049 
  
  
• Technology Adoption and Factor Proportions in Open Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Global - September 2009
  by Ana P. Cusolito and Daniel Lederman
  Agrue the assumption that all countries use similar and exogenous technologies in the production of any good.
  Working Paper 5043