Topic · World Trade Organization Law
Most cited papers in World Trade Organization Law
What are the most cited papers in World Trade Organization Law?
The most cited paper in World Trade Organization Law is "Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade?" (Scott Leonard Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, 2006), with 2,629 citations. Next come "Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?" (1,561) and "On compliance" (1,000).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 198 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade? Scott Leonard Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand · Journal of International Economics | 6 Jun 2006 | 2,629 |
| 2 | Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation? George W. Downs, David M. Rocke, Peter N. Barsoom · International Organization | 1996 | 1,561 |
| 3 | On compliance Abram J. Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes · International Organization | 1993 | 1,000 |
| 4 | Globalization in question Matthew Paterson · International Affairs | 1997 | 881 |
| 5 | Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner, B. Peter Rosendorff · International Organization | 2002 | 820 |
| 6 | The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Dataset Manfred Elsig, Andreas Dür, Leonardo Baccini · BORIS (University Library Bern) | 2014 | 746 |
| 7 | Free to Choose: A Personal Statement Meghnad J. Desai · International Affairs | 1980 | 724 |
| 8 | Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton · International Organization | Jul 2005 | 615 |
| 9 | Why are some international agreements informal? Charles Lipson · International Organization | 1991 | 580 |
| 10 | Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade Richard Baldwin · World Economy | Nov 2006 | 552 |
| 11 | The Legitimacy of International Governance: A Coming Challenge for International Environmental Law? Daniel Bodansky · American Journal of International Law | Jul 1999 | 535 |
| 12 | Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner, B. Peter Rosendorff · American Political Science Review | Jun 2000 | 527 |
| 13 | What Do Trade Agreements Really Do? Dani Rodrik · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2018 | 509 |
| 14 | Of Planets and the Universe: Self-contained Regimes in International Law Bruno Simma · European Journal of International Law | Jun 2006 | 492 |
| 15 | Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection Bias and Treaty Compliance Jana von Stein · American Political Science Review | 31 Oct 2005 | 485 |
| 16 | The standard of ‘civilization’ in international society Barrie Paskins · International Affairs | 1984 | 472 |
| 17 | Augmented Gravity Model: An Empirical Application to Mercosur-European Union Trade Flows Inmaculada Martínez‐Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak‐Lehmann · Journal of Applied Economics | Nov 2003 | 467 |
| 18 | Overlapping Institutions, Forum Shopping, and Dispute Settlement in International Trade Marc Busch · International Organization | Oct 2007 | 438 |
| 19 | Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis, André Sapir · World Economy | Nov 2010 | 434 |
| 20 | The Role of Multilateral Institutions in International Trade Cooperation Giovanni Maggi · American Economic Review | Mar 1999 | 430 |
| 21 | Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO on World Trade Judith L. Goldstein, Douglas Rivers, Michael R. Tomz · International Organization | 2007 | 429 |
| 22 | The Political Economy of Trade Policy Richard Baldwin · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Nov 1989 | 428 |
| 23 | New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System* Lawrence Busch, Carmen Bain · Rural Sociology | Sep 2004 | 423 |
| 24 | Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency Daniel Yuichi Kono · American Political Science Review | Aug 2006 | 419 |
| 25 | How confident can we be of CGE-based assessments of Free Trade Agreements? Thomas W. Hertel, David Hummels, Maros Ivanic et al. · Economic Modelling | 13 Feb 2007 | 414 |
| 26 | The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources Kal Raustiala, David G. Victor · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2003 | 414 |
| 27 | The Credibility Crisis of Community Regulation Giandomenico Majone · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies | Jun 2000 | 395 |
| 28 | On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements: Lessons from twenty years of trade integration Scott Leonard Baier, Yoto V. Yotov, Thomas Zylkin · Journal of International Economics | 27 Nov 2018 | 391 |
| 29 | Requirements of Application and Sphere of Applicability of the CISG Peter Schlechtriem · Victoria University of Wellington Law Review | Dec 2005 | 370 |
| 30 | Regime design matters: intentional oil pollution and treaty compliance Ronald B. Mitchell · International Organization | 1994 | 360 |
| 31 | Trade creation and trade diversion in the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement Kimberly A. Clausing · Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique | Aug 2001 | 353 |
| 32 | Form and Substance in International Agreements Kal Raustiala · American Journal of International Law | Jul 2005 | 351 |
| 33 | A Theory of Customary International Law Jack Landman Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner · The University of Chicago Law Review | 1999 | 345 |
| 34 | The changing landscape of regional trade agreements Jo-Ann Crawford, Roberto V. Fiorentino · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics | 2005 | 344 |
| 35 | Why are so many antidumping petitions withdrawn? Thomas J. Prusa · Journal of International Economics | Aug 1992 | 343 |
| 36 | 1 Trade, Wages, and the Political Economy of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms* Pinelopi Koujianou, Goldberg Nina Pavcnik, Jel F | 2001 | 342 |
| 37 | Political Cleavages within Industry: Firm-level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization In Song Kim · American Political Science Review | Feb 2017 | 334 |
| 38 | The Role of Public International Law in the WTO: How Far Can We Go? Joost Pauwelyn · American Journal of International Law | Jul 2001 | 334 |
| 39 | Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters C. Edwin Baker | 2007 | 332 |
| 40 | Do We Really Know That the WTO Increases Trade? Comment Michael R. Tomz, Judith L. Goldstein, Douglas Rivers · American Economic Review | Dec 2007 | 328 |
| 41 | The Legitimacy Crisis in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Privatizing Public International Law Through Inconsistent Decisions Susan D. Franck · FLASH - Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship & History (Fordham University) | 2005 | 325 |
| 42 | Doing away with plastic shopping bags: international patterns of norm emergence and policy implementation Jennifer A. Clapp (University of Waterloo), Linda Swanston · Environmental Politics | May 2009 | 318 |
| 43 | The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization. Text, Cases and Materials Peter Van den Bossche, Werner Zdouc | 2005 | 316 |
| 44 | THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Helen V. Milner · Annual Review of Political Science | Jun 1999 | 309 |
| 45 | The Opinions of the Badinter Arbitration Committee A Second Breath for the Self-Determination of Peoples Alain Pellet · European Journal of International Law | 1992 | 300 |
| 46 | 21st Century Regionalism: Filling the Gap between 21st Century Trade and 20th Century Trade Rules Richard Baldwin · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2011 | 299 |
| 47 | Treaty Compliance and Violation Beth A. Simmons · Annual Review of Political Science | May 2010 | 296 |
| 48 | The Empire's New Clothes: Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law Eyāl Benveniśtî, George W. Downs · Stanford Law Review | Nov 2007 | 284 |
| 49 | The product/process distinction - an illusory basis for disciplining 'unilateralism' in trade policy ROBERT L. HOWSE · European Journal of International Law | Feb 2000 | 276 |
| 50 | Globalisation and Inequality Andrew Hurrell, Ngaire Woods · Millennium Journal of International Studies | Dec 1995 | 274 |
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