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All papers can be downloaded from the list below. For the papers published in academic journals or as book chapters without open access a pre-publication version is available by clicking on the paper’s title.
Final project report
- Realizing European Soft Power in External Cooperation and Trade: Final project report
B. Hoekman (coordinator) on behalf of the RESPECT Consortium | August 2021
Non-trade objectives and EU trade policy
- Overlapping Negotiations, Conflicting Interests? EU-Singapore Negotiations
L. McKenzie and K. Meissner | A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy?| January 2022 - Linking ‘values’ to EU trade policy – a good idea?
J. Pelkmans | European Law Journal | December 2021 - Promoting Labour Standards through the European Neighbourhood Policy
T. Pál, F. Maduko and L. Bruszt | RSCAS Working Paper | November 2021 - Services trade and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Italian firms
O. Bamieh, F. Bripi and M. Fiorini | Review of International Economics | October 2021 - Enhancement of the European Parliament’s monitoring for better coherence between trade policy and non-trade policy objectives (NTPOs)
W. Weiß | RSCAS Working paper | August 2021 - The Pursuit of Non-Trade Policy Objectives in EU Trade Policy
I. Borchert, P. Conconi, M. Di Ubaldo and C. Herghelegiu | World Trade Review | June 2021 - EU Trade and Non-Trade Objectives: New Survey Evidence on Policy Design and Effectiveness
A. Yildirim, R. Basedow, M. Fiorini and B. Hoekman | Journal of Common Market Studies | May 2021 - The Role of Domestic Factors in the EU’s Governance of Labour Standards through Trade
F. Maduko, T. Pál and L. Bruszt | RSCAS Working Paper | May 2021 - EU Trade Agreements and Non-Trade Policy Objectives
A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, J. Francois, B. Hoekman, L. M. Lechner, M. Manchin and F. Santi | RSCAS Working Paper | April 2021
Notes on the output of the empirical exercise can be found here. - EU Trade Agreements: To Mix or not to Mix That is the Question
P. Conconi, C. Herghelegiu and L. Puccio | Journal of World Trade | April 2021 - The Legitimacy of ‘EU-only’ Preferential Trade Agreements
D. Kleimann | The Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy | December 2020 - Linking trade policy with non-trade issues: selected survey of the literature
P. Conconi | RESPECT paper | Sep 2018
Trade, investment and non-trade outcomes
- Preferential Trade Agreements and Multinational Production
S. Miroudot and D. Rigo | Journal of Economic Geography | October 2021 - Public procurement, regional integration and the Belt and Road Initiative
T. Ghossein, B. Hoekman and A. Shingal | World Bank Research Observer | August 2021 - Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI
M. Di Ubaldo and M. Gasiorek | RESPECT paper | August 2021 - How trade and investment agreements affect bilateral foreign direct investment: Results from a structural gravity model
H. Kox and H. Rojas-Romagosa | The World Economy | June 2020 - Good for the Environment, Good for Business: Foreign Acquisitions and Energy Intensity
A. Brucal, B. Javorcik and I. Love | Journal of International Economics | November 2019
Policy coherence: trade and development
- Trade Liberalization, Roads and Firm Productivity
M. Fiorini, M. Sanfilippo and A. Sundaram | Journal of Development Economics | November 2021 - EU support to economic reform in Mauritius: Promoting social inclusion and renewable energy
P. Apiko and S. Woolfrey | ECDPM Discussion Paper | October 2021 - EU-Africa trade and investment relations: Towards greater convergence?
S. Bilal, B. Hoekman and D. Njinkeu | Revisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World | September 2021 - A European Economic Diplomacy in the making
S. Bilal | RESPECT Paper | April 2021 - Aid for Trade and Trade in Services
B. Hoekman and A. Shingal | Journal of Development Studies | February 2021 - Trade, the G20 and the EU: Soft Power for Greater Policy Coherence?
B. Hoekman and R. Wilkinson | RESPECT paper | January 2021 - Aid for Trade and International Transactions in Goods and Services
B. Hoekman and A. Shingal | Review of International Economics | May 2020 - Report on the Coherence between Europe’s Trade and Development Policy
P. Apiko, S. Bilal, P. Holmes, D. Lui, J. Magntor Garrett and J. Rollo | RESPECT paper | December 2019
Trade promotion and export credit
- Can export promotion reduce unemployment?
C. Ugarte and M. Olarreaga | CEPR Discussion Paper | July 2020 - Official Export Credit Support: Competition and Compliance Issues
K. Dawar | Journal of World Trade | June 2020 - Sustainable EU business and trade: How the Enterprise Europe Network can promote trade beyond Europe
J. van Seters and S. Bilal | ECDPM briefing note | March 2020 - EU Export Credit Agencies: Assessing Compliance with EU Objectives and Obligations
K. Dawar | RESPECT paper | December 2019 - Happy Centennial Birthday UKEF: Fit for the Future?
K. Dawar | UKTPO Briefing Paper | October 2019
Trade policy uncertainty and sanctions
- The EU as an (in-)coherent security actor? : Assessing the revised dual-use regulation
K. Urbanski and K. L. Meissner | European Security | October 2021 - Worth the pain? Firms’ exporting behaviour to countries under sanctions
M. Crozet, J. Hinz, A. Stammann and J. Wanner | European Economic Review | February 2021 - Critically important: The heterogeneous effect of diplomatic tensions on trade
J. Hinz and E. Leromain | Review of Industrial Organization | July 2020 - Go ahead and trade: the effect of uncertainty removal in the EU’s GSP scheme
I. Borchert and M. Di Ubaldo | RSCAS Working Paper | February 2020 - The Impact of Trade Preferences Removal
H. Gnutzmann and A. Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan | RESPECT paper | January 2020
Political economy of trade policy
- Lobbying for Globalization
M. Blanga-Gubbay, P. Conconi and M. Parenti | CEPR DiscussionPaper | July 2021 - From Unfair Prices to Unfair Trading Practices: Political Economy, Value Chains and 21st Century Agri-Food Policy
J. Swinnen, A. Olper and S. Vandevelde | Agricultural Economics | July 2021 - How Similar Are International Economic Relations of EU Member States? Comparing Trade, Investment and Political Behavior
M. Fiorini, M. Koren, F. Santi, and Gergo Zavecz | RESPECT paper | December 2020 - Special Interests and the Public Interest in Public Policy and Information: Insights from Agricultural Policies and Food Standards
J. Swinnen | RESPECT paper | November 2019 - A Simple Theory of Deep Trade Integration
M. Parenti and G. Vannoorenberghe | RESPECT paper | September 2019
Consultations and sustainability impact assessments
- EU Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments: Revisiting the Consultation Process
B. Hoekman and H. Rojas-Romagosa | Journal of International Economic Law (forthcoming)| February 2022 - Non-trade objectives and EU external policy : survey responses on RESPECT research findings
A. Bondi and B. Hoekman | RSCAS Working Paper | February 2022 - A policy framework for trade and non-trade objectives : interviews with practitioners and stakeholders on RESPECT research findings
A. Bondi | RSCAS Working Paper | February 2022 - Overview of the evolution of the methodology and coverage of EU ex-ante trade sustainability impact assessments over time
H. Rojas-Romagosa | Policy Analysis and Modeling of the Global Economy | January 2021 - Making it count: civil society engagement in EU trade agreements
N. Ashraf and J. Van Seters | ECDPM Discussion Paper | July 2020
Standards, value chains and trade
- The effect of ISO 14001 certifications on emissions: any role for EU agreements with environmental protection provisions?
M. Di Ubaldo, S. McGuire and V. Shirodkar | Journal of International Business Policy (forthcoming) | February 2022 - Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
P. Conconi, C. Bown, A. Erbahar and L. Trimarchi | CEPR Discussion Paper | January 2021 - Trade, Value Chain Technology and Prices: Evidence from Dairy in East Africa
L. Ignowski, B. Minten, J. Swinnen, B. Van Campenhout and S. Vandevelde | LICOS Discussion Paper | January 2021 - Do standards improve the quality of traded products?
A. Disdier, C. Caigné and C. Herghelegiu | ECARES Working Paper | July 2020 - The Gravity of Intermediate Goods
P. Conconi, G. Magerman and A. Plaku | Review of Industrial Organization | June 2020 - Missing the Bigger Picture: A Population-Level Analysis of Transnational Private Governance Organizations Active in the Global South
P. Schleifer, M. Fiorini and L. Fransen | Ecological Economics | October 2019 - Trade and terroir. The political economy of the world’s first geographical indications
G. Meloni and J. Swinnen | Food Policy | December 2018
China, the US and the EU
- Encouraging Social Progress in China: EU/China cooperation for the Social Pillar of sustainable development
W. Hu and J. Pelkmans | RESPECT Paper | September 2021 - A Survey of the EU-China Dialogue Architecture – Premise, Structure, Functions, and Case Studies
W. Hu | RESPECT Paper | September 2021 - The EU–China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: A Model for Investment Coverage in the World Trade Organization?
J. Kurtz and B. Gong | RSCAS Working Paper | June 2021 - Trade after Trump: Can the Biden Administration Shore up the Eroding Foundations of American Leadership?
C. VanGrasstek | RSCAS Working Paper | February 2021 - Nudging China to go green: How EU trade and cooperation policies stimulated China
J. Pelkmans | RESPECT Paper | April 2021 - Trade wars: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
E. Bekkers, J. Francois, D. Nelson and H. Rojas-Romagosa | Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past? | January 2021 - The pre-Trump build-up of trade discrimination: scale, form, and drivers
S. Evenett | Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past? | January 2021 - ‘We can also do stupid’: EU’s response to America First protectionism
S. Evenett | Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past? | January 2021 - The Trade Policy of the United States under the Trump Administration
C. VanGrasstek | Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past? | January 2021 - EU-China trade-related dialogues, a first assessment
W. Hu and J. Pelkmans | RSCAS Working Paper | July 2020
COVID-19 and trade policy
- How European financial institutions can work better together for sustainable and green (co-)investment in times of COVID-19
S. Bilal | ECDPM Discussion Paper | March 2021 - Export Restrictions During Global Health Crises: The International Community Can and Must Do Better
L. Puccio and A. Sapir | RSCAS Working Paper | October 2020 - Towards an EU global COVID-19 response 2.0: Boosting smarter finance
S. Bilal | ECDPM Discussion Paper | June 2020 - Export restrictions: A Negative-sum Policy Response to the COVID-19 crisis
B. Hoekman, M. Fiorini and A. Yildirim | COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work | April 2020
Regulatory heterogeneity and international cooperation
- Can trade policies help promote sustainable forest management? An analysis of the EU-Ghana FLEGT voluntary partnership agreement
S. Woolfrey | ECDPM Discussion Paper | October 2021 - Why de-judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement reforms
J. R. Basedow | Regulation & Governance | August 2021 - Adequacy decisions: an opportunity for regulatory cooperation on data protection?
M. Saluste | RESPECT paper | January 2021 - Value Chain Approaches to Reducing Policy Spillovers on International Business
C. Findlay and B. Hoekman |Journal of International Business Policy| November 2020 - Rethinking International Subsidy Rules
B. Hoekman and D. Nelson | The World Economy | September 2020 - Revising Asymmetry? Specifying the EU-US Open Skies Agreement
A. Héritier and Y. Karagiannis | RESPECT Paper | July 2020 - EU services trade liberalization and economic regulation: Complements or substitutes?
M. Fiorini and B. Hoekman | The Review of International Organizations | January 2020 - Open Plurilateral Agreements, International Regulatory Cooperation and the WTO
B. Hoekman and C. Sabel | Global Policy | July 2019 - The WTO Government Procurement Agreement as a commitment device: a first appraisal
B. Dengler and B. Hoekman | CEPR Discussion Paper | October 2018
WTO and multilateral cooperation
- Informing WTO Reform: Practitioner Perspectives from China, the EU, and the U.S.
B. Hoekman and R. Wolfe | China & World Economy | July 2021 - Plurilateral Cooperation as an Alternative to Trade Agreements: Innovating one Domain at a Time
B. Hoekman and C. Sabel | Global Policy | April 2021 - WTO Reform: Back to the Past to Build for the Future
B. Hoekman and P. Mavroidis | Global Policy | April 2021 - Burning down the house? The Appellate Body in the Center of the WTO crisis
B. Hoekman and P. Mavroidis | Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past? | January 2021 - Reopening Pandora’s Box in Search of a WTO-compatible Industrial Policy? The Brazil – Taxation Dispute
E. Ornelas and L. Puccio | World Trade Review | April 2020 - Greening the WTO: EGA, tariff concessions and policy likeness
P. Mavroidis and D. Neven | Journal of International Economic Law | August 2019 - The role of an environmental goods agreement in the quest to improve the regime complex for climate change
J. De Melo and J. Solleder | RSCAS Working Paper | August 2019 - Urgent and Important: Improving WTO Performance by Revisiting Working Practices
B. Hoekman | Journal of World Trade | January 2019