Research

Projects include:

• CLIMTrade: Climate Concerns and Trade Policy: Integrating climate objectives into trade policy frameworks
• EDIT - Electronic Database of Investment Treaties
• DESTA (Design of Trade Agreements) - The project aims to systematically collect data on various types of preferential trade agreements (PTAs)
• TRADEM (Trade and Democracy) - The project’s main objective is to develop new and test existing arguments related to the types of outside-in effects through trade agreements that lead to positive or negative effects for various types of democracy parameters
• Global Value Chains and Provisions in PTAs - The project builds on the existing Design of Trade Agreements dataset and uses inputs from the EDIT dataset on bilateral investment treaties and the Big Data project
• General Equilibrium Effects of Technical Non-Tariff Measures: Evaluating the economic impact of regulatory trade measures
• In Search of a Geneva Consensus: The Trade-Development Nexus in the GATT/WTO and UNCTAD