Existing research indicates the interrelated nature of different dimensions of the design of
international institutions. In particular, it shows the greater flexibility of deep agreements. We …

This paper reviews the content of as well as the reception of the current state of the planned
China-European union Comprehensive Agreement on Investment as per January 2021 …

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) form an intricate web that connects countries across
the globe. In this article, we introduce a PTA text corpus and research tools for its …

We explore the role of global value chains (GVCs) in the design of preferential trade
agreements (PTAs). We propose a theory that focuses on firms involved in GVC activities to …

Do comprehensive trade agreements increase the participation of States in global value
chains (GVCs) and contribute to their development? Although there is extensive evidence in …

This paper proposes a new method to predict the impact of preferential trade agreements
(PTAs) on trade and welfare taking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as a case …

We estimate the effect of RTAs on bilateral exports by means of a gravity model analyzing its
sensitivity to different specifications and methods. RTAs generate a sizable positive effect …

This paper focuses on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union to the East and treats it
as a natural experiment to investigate two issues: first, whether there has been a trade …

Over the last few decades, multi-indexed data on trade, multinational activity, and even
migration have become available. The by far most prominent application of multi …

This article combines insights from three strands of work: the one on self‐selection into
treatments, the one on staggered treatment effects, and the one on preferential trade …