What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment (2009)
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some...
What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment (2009)
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some...
What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment (2009)
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some...
What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment (2009)
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some...
Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy (2007)
Simon J. Evenett, Wolfgang Keller, Mahmoud El-gamal, Gordon Hanson, Elhanan Helpman, Dan Treßer
especially to an anonymous referee. We also thank Jim Rauch and Karl Aiginger for providing data used in this paper.
Five hypotheses concerning the fate of the Singapore issues in the Doha Round (2007)
At the Cancún Ministerial Conference, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) disagreed on whether to launch negotiations on multilateral disciplines concerning the four areas of...
Simon J. Evenett, Alexander Hijzen
During the current phase of international market integration one important form of corporate restructuring is through cross-border merger or acquisition. Even though such restructuring typically...
Competition and the Millenium Development Goals: "New" Evidence from Official Sources. (2006)
While some prefer to think of the effects of competition law and policy in terms of efficiency and resource allocation, many senior policymakers in developing countries, in aid agencies that finance...
Competition Advocacy: Time for Rethink? (2006)
This paper examines the conventional wisdom concerning competition advocacy, paying particular attention to the applicability of such wisdom to developing countries. The definition of competition...
Monitoring Implementation: Japan and the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (2006)
Simon J. Evenett, Anirudh Shingal
Although WTO agreements contain a variety of provisions to encourage compliance by signatories, little attention is given to the incentives created by the mechanisms other than dispute settlement....
Economic Development and Multilateral Trade Cooperation (2006)
Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman
A key challenge confronting the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to address perceptions that it is not supportive of development. Should the WTO be limited to increasing market access opportunities...
The WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong: What's Next? (2006)
Any assessment of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference depends critically on the benchmark employed. Surely, compared to its predecessor, the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference was a success. Having...
Using a standard linear version of the Bertrand duopoly model of competition, I analyse the effect on firm pricing behaviour of three prominent features of the U.S. antidumping system. I identify the...
Using survey data on technical assistance projects that was collected by the International Competition Network's Competition Policy Implementation Working Group during 2004 and 2005, I estimate the...
What can we really learn from the competition provisions of regional trade agreements? (2005)
Even though members of the World Trade Organization decided not to negotiate a multilateral framework on competition policy in the context of the Doha Round a growing number of them have agreed to...
What is the Relationship between Competition Law and Policy and Economic Development? (2005)
What possible contributions to economic development can the appropriate enforcement of competition law make? What harm could result from such enforcement? These two questions are uppermost in the...
Would Enforcing Competition Law Compromise Industry Policy Objectives? (2005)
One recurring concern in the debate over the efficacy of enacting competition laws in developing countries is that its enforcement may compromise important industrial policy goals. This concern has...
Government Procurement: Market Access, Transparency and Multilateral Trade Rules (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman
This paper examines the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices, discrimination and nontransparency. Both policies have become prominent in international...
Some Tough Love On "Aid For Trade" (2005)
Proposals for additional funds to support the adjustment of developing countries to trade reforms and to further integrate them into the world economy attained considerable prominence during 2005. I...
Corporate Strategy and Political Economy in a World Free of Dumping (2005)
Over the last twenty years many countries have enacted and begun using antidumping legislation. These laws seek, amongst other goals, to deter injurious dumping. In this paper I describe some of the...
Can the WTO Rise to the Challenge of Economic Development? Forthcoming in Aussenwirthschaft (2005)
Looking back over the first four years of negotiation of the Doha Round this paper identifies and discusses a number of factors that are shaping negotiations among WTO members as they try to fulfil...
Anticompetitive Practices and Liberalising Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (2005)
Julian L. Clarke, Simon J. Evenett, Krista Lucenti
The last ten years have seen many Latin American and Caribbean nations enact or reform competition laws, and numerous other jurisdictions are considering following suit. The evidential base to guide...
Simon J. Evenett, Edwin Vermulst
This paper examines one political-economy aspect of the European Communities (EC) anti-dumping policy that has tended to be overlooked in prior studies; namely, the role that member states play in...
Competition Policy and Development in Asia (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Douglas H. Brooks
This book looks at the experiences of six Asian countries in terms of developing and implementing domestic competition policy. It analyzes how the choice of development policies impacts on the state...
Trade Reforms, Market Power, and Pass-Through in Selected East Asian Nations (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Krista Lucenti
Employing an approach devised by Goldberg and Knetter (1999), we estimate whether European exporters exercised market power in selected East Asian markets during 1989- 2004. We find that in one-third...
Competitive Liberalization: a Tournament Theory-Based Interpretation (2005)
The current U.S. trade policy of competitive liberalization includes the following prominent features: stimulating a competition among trading partners for access to U.S. markets; the inclusion...
International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman
The decision not to launch negotiations in the WTO on three of the Singapore Issues in the so-called July 2004 package provides an opportunity to revisit the knowledge base upon which proposals for...
Evaluating WTO Accessions: The Effect of WTO Accession on National Trade Flows (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Jonathan Gage
In recent years the benefits of WTO membership has been called into question, notably in the context of discussions on WTO accessions. Previously it was widely thought that better access to the...
The Design of Technical Assistance Programs (2005)
The work of the Subgroup on Technical Assistance has been focused on the recognition that the expansion of competition law around the world in the past 20 years has meant that capacity building is a...
WTO Accession: Lessons from Experience (2005)
Introduction Since its creation in 1995, twenty new Members have acceded to the World Trade Organization (WTO). On 13 October 2004, Cambodia became the WTOs 148th member, almost 10 years after it...
This summary is organised in the same manner as the sessions of the workshop. The first day of the workshop was devoted to a discussion of four developing countries experiences with the WTO...
Economic Development and Multilateral Trade Cooperation (2005)
Evenett, Simon J. (ed.), Hoekman, Bernard M. (ed.), World Trade Forum ( 2003 : Berna, Suiza)
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The WTO Rules That We Deserve? Comment on Professor Morrissey's chapter (2004)
In recent years, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has come under sustained attack from many academics and other observers. Many of the arguments employed in this attack are found in Professor...
An Inventory of Allegations of Anti-Competitive Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa (2004)
Simon J. Evenett, Frédéric Jenny
This paper summarises our efforts to date to assemble a comprehensive database of allegations of anti-competitive practices made in Sub-Saharan Africa publications, principally in newspapers and...
The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s (2004)
To establish a benchmark, the cross border mergers and acquisitions wave of the late 1990s is compared to its predecessor in the late 1980s. It is found to be at least five times larger (in real...
Julian L. Clarke, Simon J. Evenett
In the context of the negotiations on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), it has been proposed that signatories agree to enact and enforce a national law against private anti-competitive...
The Sequencing of Regional Integration (2004)
Recent years have seen a proliferation of preferential trading agreements, with certain nations signing a sequence of agreements over time. This latter fact raises the question as to what factors...
WTO Membership and Market Access: Evidence from the Accessions of Bulgaria and Ecuador (2004)
Simon J. Evenett, Jonathan Gage, Maxine Kennett
It is often argued that the quid pro quo for accepting WTO commitments on national trade barriers and other policies is improved access to foreign markets. In this study disaggregated information on...
A Report On The Third Annual Conference Of The International Competition Network (2004)
The Third Annual Conference of the International Competition Network (ICN) was held in Seoul, Korea, on April 21-22, 2004. An ICN panel on Improving the Effectiveness of Competition Advocacy was...
This note describes eleven policy recommendations that were stimulated by discussions at the above roundtable. The opinions expressed here are my own and need not reflect those of any other...
With the move towards democracy and measures to liberalise domestic sectors and foreign trade, policymakers in Central America and elsewhere have taken a greater interest in the linkages between...
The sequencing of regional trade initiatives in Europe and East Asia, with (2004)
Simon J. Evenett, Anthony J. Venables, L. Alan Winters
The latest wave of international market integration has seen a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangements at the same time as the multilateral trading system has struggled to expand...
The EU and India on Competition Policy at the WTO: Is There A Common Ground? (2003)
Simon J. Evenett, Peter Braendle, Peter Holmes, James Mathis
This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms international networks of offices on the total value of overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by US corporations. Nowdays many...
In September 2003 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) must decide the terms of upon which any negotiations on a multilateral framework on competition policy are to be conducted. This...
During the 1990s the European Commission and the United States Department of Justice between them prosecuted over 40 cartels that involved private firms and whose effects went beyond national...
Links between development and competition law in developing countries (2003)
The econometric literature on the effects of competition law on investment focuses almost exclusively on the consequences for inflows of foreign direct investment. What is more, the empirical papers...
Sustainability Impact Assessment of Proposed WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Competition (2003)
Simon J. Evenett, Julian L. Clarke, Kevin Gray
Discussions over the relationships between trade policy, competition policy and private anti-competition practices have been going on for a long time. This is not to say that the issues at the centre...
Study of issues relating to a multilateral framework on competition policy (2003)
1. This study examines three issues relevant to the work of the Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy. These are: - possible trade-offs and complementarities between...
It is important to appreciate how large the worlds government procurement markets are. Although precise estimates are hard to come by, a recent analysis by the Organisation for Economic...
At the next WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in Cancún 1014 September 2003, Ministers will decide by explicit consensus on modalities of negotiations on competition issues. In addition to...
With the move towards democracy and measures to liberalise domestic sectors and foreign trade, policymakers in Central America and elsewhere have taken a greater interest in the linkages between...
Simon J. Evenett, Benno Ferrarini
1. The World Trade Institute is an independent academic centre devoted to legal and economic research into the operation of the world trading system. The WTI also conducts extensive teaching and...
The Trade Impact of Economic Sanctions Against South African Exports (2002)
In the mid-1980s many nations imposed sanctions on South African exports, most of which were subsequently removed during 1991-3. I estimate the effect of eight industrialized economies' sanctions on...
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation (2002)
Simon J. Evenett, Wolfgang Keller
We examine whether two important theories of trade, the Heckscher- Ohlin theory and the increasing returns theory, can account for the empirical success of the so-called gravity equation. Since...
The Uruguay Round agreements involved a substantial expansion in the commitments made by World Trade Organisation (WTO) members. To strengthen the incentives for nations to adhere to these new WTO...
Export Growth by Developing Economies: Market Entry and Bilateral Trade (2002)
Simon J. Evenett, Anthony Venables
We document the disappearance of numerous zeros in bilateral trade matrices since 1970. A novel decomposition of the growth of 23 developing economies exports during 1970-97 reveals that...
Like their wealthier counterparts, the poorest developing economies saw their share of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and privatizations rise in the...
International Cartel Enforcement: Lessons from the 1990s (2001)
Simon J. Evenett, Margaret C. Levenstein, Valerie Y. Suslow
In its 1997 Annual Report, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) high-lighted the growing significance of international cartels for policymakers, noting 'there are some indications that a growing...
Picking winners or creating them? Revisiting the benefits of FDI in the Czech Republic (2001)
We examine whether publicly-traded Czech firms that received foreign direct investment (FDI) before the end of 1995 had higher levels of total factor productivity during 1995-8. Preliminary data...
International cartel enforcement : lessons from the 1990s (2001)
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The World Trading System: The Road Ahead (2000)
Many aspects of globalization have captured worldwide attention in the 1990s, including capital flows, migration, and environmental issues. But for more than a century, the driving force behind...
Prerequisites for Private Restraints on Market Access and International Cartels (2000)
Simon J. Evenett, Valerie Y. Suslow
With the decline of government-imposed trade barriers policymakers have given greater attention to the international distortions created by the practices of private firms, including cartels. We...
Developing Nations and the Global Financial System (2000)
The 1990s saw a huge upsurge in flows of private capital from industrial to developing countries. At the beginning of the decade, private and official flows were about the same, but only five years...
Simon J. Evenett, Valerie Suslow
The ongoing debate on the merits of taking state action against private firms, whose practices have allegedly restricted market access, has made little reference to the policy implications of...
Government procurement : Market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules
Evenett, Simon J., Hoekman, Bernard M.
The authors examine the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices-discrimination against foreign suppliers of goods and services and nontransparency of the...
International cooperation and the reform of public procurement policies
Evenett, Simon J., Hoekman, Bernard M.
The decision not to launch negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on three of the Singapore Issues in the so-called July 2004 package provides an opportunity to revisit the knowledge base...
International cartel enforcement : lessons from the 1990s
Evenett, Simon J., Levenstein, Margaret C., Suslow, Valerie Y.
The enforcement record of the 1990s shows that private international cartels are not defunct--nor do they always fall quickly under the weight of their own incentive problems. Of a sample of 40 such...
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
Simon J. Evenett, Wolfgang Keller
We examine whether two important theories of trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the increasing returns theory, can account for the empirical success of the so-called gravity equation. Since...
What Can Researchers Learn from the Suspension of the Doha Round Negotiations in 2006?
The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations was suspended for almost six months in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to ask what scholars can learn about the political economy of reciprocal...
The Trade Strategy of the European Union: Time for a Rethink?
The European Union is the world's largest trader, a fact that on the face of it ought to convert into considerable clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade...
EU Commercial Policy in a Multipolar Trading System
In recent years the bipolar multilateral trading system of the post-war years has given way to a multipolar alternative. Although many specifics have yet to be determined, some contours of this new...
The Politicisation of EC Anti-dumping Policy: Member States, Their Votes and the European Commission
Simon J. Evenett, Edwin Vermulst
This paper examines one political-economy aspect of the European Communities' (EC) anti-dumping policy that has tended to be overlooked in prior studies; namely, the role that member states play in...
International Cartel Enforcement: Lessons from the 1990s
Simon J. Evenett, Margaret C. Levenstein, Valerie Y. Suslow
The enforcement record of the 1990s has demonstrated that private international cartels are neither relics of the past nor do they always fall quickly under the weight of their own incentive...
Anti-competitive Practices and Liberalising Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Julian L. Clarke, Simon J. Evenett, Krista Lucenti
The last ten years have seen many Latin American and Caribbean nations enact or reform competition laws, and numerous other jurisdictions are considering following suit. The evidential base to guide...
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on South African Exports.
In the mid-1980s many nations imposed sanctions on South African exports, most of which were subsequently removed during 1991-93. I estimate the effect of eight industrialized economies' sanctions on...
The Trade Policy Jungle: A Survival Guide for Academic Economists
The rules of the trade policy arena differ from those in academia. How can an economic researcher survive, let alone thrive, in what may appear to be a trade policy jungle? The purpose of this paper...
International Cartel Enforcement: Lessons from the 1990s
Simon J. Evenett, Margaret C. Levenstein, Valerie Y. Suslow
The enforcement record of the 1990s has demonstrated that international private cartels are neither relics of the past nor do they always fall quickly under the weight of their own incentive...
Introduction - The Sequencing of Regional Economic Integration
Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, Antoni Estevadeordal, Simon J. Evenett
An Interim Assessment of the US Trade Policy of 'Competitive Liberalization'
Simon J. Evenett, Michael Meier
Abstract Since 2001, the Administration of George W. Bush has pursued a trade policy known as Competitive Liberalization. This policy envisages a series of mutually-reinforcing and sequential steps...
The Trade Strategy of the European Union: Time for a Rethink?
The European Union is the world's largest trader, a fact that on the face of it ought to convert into considerable clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade...
EU Commercial Policy in a Multipolar Trading System
In recent years the bipolar multilateral trading system of the post-war years has given way to a multipolar alternative. Although many specifics have yet to be determined, some contours of this new...
The Trade Policy Jungle: A Survival Guide for Academic Economists
The rules of the trade policy arena differ from those in academia. How can an economic researcher survive, let alone thrive, in what may appear to be a trade policy jungle? The purpose of this paper...
What Can Researchers Learn From the Suspension of the Doha Round Negotiations in 2006?
The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations was suspended for almost six months in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to ask what scholars can learn about the political economy of reciprocal...
An Interim Assessment of the U.S. Trade Policy of “Competitive Liberalization”
Simon J. Evenett, Michael Meier
Since taking office the Administration of George W. Bush has pursued a trade policy known as Competitive Liberalization. This policy envisages a series of mutually-reinforcing steps to open markets...
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
Simon J. Evenett, Wolfgang Keller
We analyze two main theories of international trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Increasing Returns trade theory, by examining whether they can account for the empirical success of the...
Government Procurement: Market Access, Transparency, and Multilateral Trade Rules
Evenett, Simon J, Hoekman, Bernard
The effects on national welfare and on market access of two public procurement practices, discrimination and non-transparency, are examined. Both policies have become prominent in international trade...
International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies
Evenett, Simon J, Hoekman, Bernard
The stalemate reached on launching negotiations on most of the Singapore Issues at Cancún provides an opportunity to revisit the knowledge base upon which proposals for international collective...
Competition Law and Europe's Open Borders: The Case of Motor Vehicle Distribution in Switzerland
Simon J. Evenett, Michael Meier
This paper contains an independent empirical analysis of the effect of a Notice, issued by the Swiss Competition Commission in 2002 concerning vertical agreements between manufacturers and...
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
Simon J. Evenett, Wolfgang Keller
We analyze two main theories of international trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Increasing Returns trade theory, by examining whether they can account for the empirical success of the...
The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s
To establish a benchmark, the cross border mergers and acquisitions wave of the late 1990s is compared to its predecessor in the late 1980s. It is found to be at least five times larger (in real...
This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by US corporations. Nowadays many...
The Trade Policy Jungle: A Survival Guide for Academic Economists
The rules of the trade policy arena differ from those in academia. How can an economic researcher survive, let alone thrive, in what may appear to be a trade policy jungle? The purpose of this paper...
The Failure of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun: Implications for Further Research
Internationale Handelspolitik, Internationale Wirtschaftsorganisation, Welt, International trade policy, International economic organization, World
Trouble in paradise: Will technocrats review global merger forever?
bernahme, International, Fusionskontrolle, Welt, Takeover, Merger control, World
What Can Be Learned from Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some...
What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some...