Handbook of Commercial Policy

Handbook of Commercial Policy explores three main topics that permeate the study of commercial policy. The first section presents a broad set of basic empirical facts regarding the pattern and evolution of commercial policy, with the second section investigating the crosscutting legal issues relating to the purpose and design of agreements. Final sections cover key issues of commercial policy in the modern global economy.

Every chapter in the book provides coverage from the perspectives of multilateral, and where appropriate, preferential trade agreements. While most other volumes are policy-oriented, this comprehensive guide explores the ways that intellectual thinking and rigor organize research, further making frontier-level synthesis and current theoretical, and empirical, research accessible to all.

Covers the research areas that are critical for understanding how the world of commercial policy has changed, especially over the last 20 yearsPresents the way in which research on the topic has evolvedScrutinizes the economic modeling of bargaining and legal issuesUseful for examining the theory and empirics of commercial policy

Volume IA: Part I. Commercial Policy: Empirical Facts, Determinants and Effects 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy, Bown and Crowely 2. The Political Economy of Commercial Policy, McLaren 3. The Effects of Trade Policy, Goldberg and Pavcnik 4. Quantitative Models of Commercial Policy (programs), Ossa

Part II. Trade Agreements: Legal Background, Purpose and Design 5. Legal Aspects of Commercial Policy Rules, Sykes 6. Dispute Settlement in the WTO: Mind over Matter, Mavroidis 7. The Purpose of Trade Agreements, Grossman 8.The Design of Trade Agreements (Online Appendix), Bagwell & Staiger

Volume IB: Part III. Trade Agreements: Issue Areas 9. Enforcement and Dispute Settlement, Park 10. The Escape Clause in Trade Agreements, Beshkar and Bond 11. Dumping and Antidumping Duties, Blonigen and Prusa 12. Subsidies and Countervailing Duties, Lee 13. Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System, Ederington and Ruta 14. Preferential Trade Agreements, Limao 15. Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries, Ornelas 16. Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, and the World Trade Organization, Saggi 17. Issue Linkage, Maggi,