The World Trade Institute (WTI) is committed to advancing scholarly research in the fields of international trade law, economics, and political science. Our research staff regularly publish a broad array of academic works, including:
These publications reflect the interdisciplinary nature of our work and contribute to global debates on trade, investment, and sustainable development.
26 Mar 2025 | Working Papers
The literature on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has mainly focused on the trade effects of nontrade provisions (NTPs) addressing environmental or lab…
21 Mar 2025 | Books/ Book Chapters
This chapter examines how the multilateral discussion on …
25 Feb 2025 | Policy briefs
The recent Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) claims regarding a 10% universal tariff on all U.S. imports rest on assumptions that th…
27 Jan 2025 | Books/ Book Chapters
In this chapter, Rodrigo Polanco argues that Latin American contributions to the internet have not been sufficiently acknowledged. He describes how the countries of the…
14 Jan 2025 | Journal Articles
For years, scholars in international relations have addressed questions related to regime complexity and its effects. However, there is a lack…
11 Dec 2024 | Working Papers
Gender equality is a fundamental human right and a prerequisite for achieving sustainable d…
10 Dec 2024 | Journal Articles
Due process is a central principle in most domestic legal systems and international dispute settlement, although its co…
6 Dec 2024 | Journal Articles
On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time of writing, the fighting continues, with the fron…
19 Nov 2024 | Working Papers
Economic growth theory has since linked innovation to growth hence countries developed a system in which works of human ingenuity ar…
19 Nov 2024 | Working Papers
Chapter by Craig Atkinson, WTI Non-Resident Fellow and joint Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University Centre for AI a…
30 Oct 2024 | Working Papers
The present research started from the legal analysis of women’s participatory rights in leadership positions in publ…
22 Oct 2024 | Working Papers
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping various facets of social, political and economic life. Within this transformative paradigm, both international organizations…
16 Oct 2024 | Policy briefs
Using a data set covering more than 120 countries spanning several decades, this paper employs a synthetic difference in difference estimator to study whether …
16 Oct 2024 | Working Papers, Reports/ Presentations
Much like the exploitation of global trade by the first multinationals, early space commerce has the potential to lead to significant conflict as privateers seek to…
14 Oct 2024 | Other
We place the question of change feasibility in the general context of food sustainability governance. Regrettably, our feasibility assessment m…
26 Sep 2024 | Working Papers
According to the prevailing paradigm at the end of the Cold War, the opening of markets and internat…
10 Sep 2024 | Other
Das neue Abkommen der Efta mit Indien ist ein Bruch mit traditionellen Handelsverträgen. Mondflug, Aufstieg zum bevölkerungsreichsten Land der Welt, exzellente Wachstumsprognosen: Die Rede ist v…
3 Sep 2024 | Books/ Book Chapters
This chapter provides an empirical evaluation of awards in investor-state arbitration, including both internal and external elements.
2 Sep 2024 | Working Papers
The paper focuses, in particular, on t…
2 Sep 2024 | Working Papers
Le violet est devenu le symbole de la lutte pour les droits des femmes.
