1 The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly (2006)
Arvind Subramanian, Shang-jin Wei, Alina Carare, Peter Clark, K. Michael Finger, Hildegunn Nordas, ...
WTO, Inter-American Development Bank for helpful suggestions and discussions. The authors would also like to thanks two anonymous referees and the editor (Bob Staiger) for comments that have...
Price effects of preferential market access : the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the apparel sector
Preferential trade arrangements should be evaluated by analyzing their effect on prices, rather than the total value of trade, as emphasized in the theoretical literature but rarely implemented...
Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the U.S. labor market
Mattoo, Aaditya, Neagu, Ileana Cristina, Ozden, Caglar
The authors investigate the occupational placement of immigrants in the U.S. labor market using census data. They find striking differences among highly educated immigrants from different countries,...
The perversity of preferences : GSP and developing country trade policies, 1976 - 2000
Ozden, Caglar, Reinhardt, Eric
Industrial countries maintain special tariff preferences, namely the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), for importsfrom developing countries. Critics have highlighted the underachieving nature...
Migrant networks and foreign direct investment
Javorcik, Beata S., Ozden, Caglar, Spatareanu, Mariana, Neagu, Cristina
While there exists sizeable literature documenting the importance of ethnic networks for international trade, little attention has been devoted to studying the effects of networks on foreign direct...
Loss aversion and trade policy
Freund, Caroline, Ozden, Caglar
This paper provides new survey evidence showing that loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people's perception of trade policy. Under the assumption that agents'welfare...
Geopolitical interests and preferential access to U.S. markets
Lederman, Daniel, Ozden, Caglar
The United States imports around 25 percent of its merchandise under some form of preferential trade regime. The authors examine both the origins and consequences of U.S. trade preferences in the...
Trade preferences and differential treatment of developing countries : a selective survey
Hoekman, Bernard, Ozden, Caglar
Nonreciprocal trade preferences and provisions in the GATT/WTO that allow developing countries greater leeway to retain or use protectionist policies are two of the central planks of so-called...
Migration and remittances : causes and linkages
The authors empirically examine the determinants of remittance flows at the cross-country level. They consider, among other things, the significance of the level of migration, the education level of...
The pattern of US antidumping: the path from initial filing to WTO dispute settlement
BOWN, CHAD P., HOEKMAN, BERNARD, OZDEN, CAGLAR
This paper examines recent trends in the US antidumping process. We trace the experience of different groups of countries at each stage of the investigation process and through follow-up activity in...
Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less
Niimi, Yoko, Ozden, Caglar, Schiff, Maurice
It has been argued that the brain drain’s negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with...
Trade Policy and Loss Aversion
We develop a political economy model where loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people’s preferences over trade policy. The policy implications of the augmented model...
The pattern of US antidumping: the path from initial filing to WTO dispute settlement
BOWN, CHAD P., HOEKMAN, BERNARD, OZDEN, CAGLAR
This paper examines recent trends in the US antidumping process. We trace the experience of different groups of countries at each stage of the investigation process and through follow-up activity in...
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frederic, Ozden, Caglar
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, the authors analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country...
The Euro-mediterranean partnership : trade in services as an alternative to migration ?
Hoekman, Bernard, Ozden, Caglar
This paper discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union’s partnership...