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08-Oct-2008
This paper uses firm-level data to identify FDI spillovers across countries and sectors. A positive interaction is found between trade liberalisation and productivity spillovers.
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06-Jun-2007
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 54. This report proposes an analysis of the mutually reinforcing relationship between trade, investment and competition policies and how together they impact trade in developing countries. Moreover, the paper further examines pro-competitive reforms in key services sectors and the extent to which trade agreements can promote them through the experience of the WTO telecoms Reference Paper.
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22-Jun-2007
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No.55. This report analyses the interactions between the investment and services chapters of 20 regional trade agreements; identifies four major types of interaction and then looks at the implications for levels of investment protection and liberalisation.
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04-Dec-2006
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 43. The post world war II era has been characterized by unprecedented growth in the world economy and progressive reduction in barriers to international trade and investment. The objective of this study is to assess to what extent the observed growth and deepening international economic integration are related.
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04-Dec-2006
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 44. Through an analysis of its integration into the world's goods and services markets, the paper examines China's influence on the global economy and impact on selected OECD countries.
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13-Oct-2006
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 41. How can governments facilitate structural adjustment? This follow-up to Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation (OECD, 2005) draws policy implications on (1) benefits of multilateral commitments, (2) government role in domestic reform (e.g. licensing) and state ownership; subsidies; and facilitation of information flows, and (3) sequencing through analysis of the tobacco, coffee, telecommunications and chemicals sectors.
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04-Oct-2006
This Global Forum, co-organised with the Competition Division of DAF, was attended by approximately 140 people from 58 delegations and addressed key issues for developing countries: (i) the way in which anti-competitive practices influence export competitiveness, (ii) the linkages between competition policy and socio-economic development to attain the Millennium Development Goals, and (iii) regional approaches to trade and competition found in bilateral and regional trading arrangements.
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03-Apr-2006
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 31. This study provides a taxonomy of the types of competition-related provisions contained in selected regional trade agreements. It describes different types of provisions addressing, inter alia, co-operation and coordination among competition agencies, anticompetitive behaviour, dispute settlement, and special and differential treatment.
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18-Jan-2006
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 25. This study analyses the increased use of traded services in the fragmentation process in four different manufacturing value chains (apparel, automobiles, semiconductors, and wood furniture), and is complemented by empirical work examining the relationship between services liberalisation and manufacturing FDI.
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10th February 2006: OECD Global Forum on Trade and Competition
16-Dec-2005
The OECD Global Forum on Trade and Competition will be held in Paris on 10th February 2006. This one-day event will address developing country concerns about trade and competition. Participants will discuss, among others, case studies on competition, competitiveness and development as well as research on competition provisions in regional trade agreements and their implementation.
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