Publications
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That Chinese “juggernaut” – Should Europe Really Worry about its Trade Deficit with China?
By: Andreas FreytagChina’s exchange-rate policy has been under attack in the last years, especially in the United States. Now the critique of Beijing’s policy is...
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So Alike and Yet so Different: A Comparison of the Uruguay Round and the Doha Round
By: Peter KleenAs the first multilateral trade round to be conducted under the auspices of the WTO, the Doha Round is beginning to appear as protracted, complicated...
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Kazakhstan’s Accession to the WTO: A Quantitive Assessment
By: Arastou KhatibiIn light of Kazakhstan’s interest to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), this paper investigates the impact of the WTO accession on trade...
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Sweden – From Free Trade to Protectionism?
By: Fredrik ErixonSweden has been one of the leading voices for freer trade in the post-war era. Its support for the multilateral trading system has been strong. Today...
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Trade Facilitation: The Role of a WTO Agreement
Trade facilitation negotiations have been one of the more active topics in the Doha negotiations. In this paper noted trade scholar J. Michael Finger...
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Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO
Kazakhstan has been negotiating accession to the WTO for twelve years, following a line of ex-Soviet states seeking membership. In this new,...
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Preferential Trade Agreements in Services: Friends or Foes of the Multilateral Trading System?
A fashionable feature of new generation preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been the inclusion of a trade in services component. Does this trend...
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Promoting Tokyo as an International Financial Center
Japan’s economic power is widely recognized worldwide—thanks to it being the worlds 2nd largest economy (US$4.3 trillion equivalent GDP in 2006)...
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