Simon J Evenett
Biographic Data
| ID | 963794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon J Evenett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon J |
| FAMILY NAME | Evenett |
| SIGNATURE | EVENETT S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St.Gallen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9323-7474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The return of industrial policy in data
This paper introduces the New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO) data set and documents emergent patterns of policy intervention during 2023 associated with the return of industrial policy. The data show that the recent wave of new industrial policy activity is primarily driven by advanced economies and that subsidies are the most employed instrument. Trade restrictions on imports and exports are more frequently used by emerging market and deve…
Towards meaningful transparency at the WTO: Reinforcing the trade policy review mechanism 1
We characterise the operation of the World Trade Organization's Trade Policy Review as an exercise, albeit valuable, in performative transparency. We describe steps taken by the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade to augment this review process so as contribute towards meaningful transparency. Drawing from recent Trade Policy Reviews of G20 countries, specific examples are described where revealing evidence was provided that facilit…
Deterring Digital Trade Without Discrimination
Commercial activity and regulatory oversight of the digital economy are growing apace. This essay argues that regulatory heterogeneity can deter digital trade without discrimination. Domestic policies that are not discriminatory can still result in fragmentation of the global digital economy, if sufficiently heterogeneous. We find that rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in digital trade agreements offer important directions but insuf…
Trade policy responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic crisis: Evidence from a new data set
This paper presents new high‐frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week‐by‐week basis. The data set reveals a rapid increase in trade policy activism in February and March 2020 in tandem with the rise in COVID‐19 cases but also uncovers extensive heterogeneity across count…
Power transition and the regulatory state in large emerging markets: Norm‐breaking after the global financial crisis
I examine the ways in which the global financial crisis that began in 2007, and whose effects arguably condition policymaking to the present day, affected the ongoing global power transition as manifested by the unilateral decisions undertaken by official agencies comprising national regulatory states. The theory of that power transition articulated in the overview paper of this Special Issue is reinterpreted to take into account the circumstance…
Sicken thy neighbour: The initial trade policy response to Covid‐19
Since the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, many governments have limited exports of medical supplies and medicines. Pre‐pandemic barriers to imports of medical supplies and soap remain largely in place. Having characterised trade policy stance towards COVID‐19‐related goods, this study critically assesses the resort to export curbs and import taxes. Elements of an alternative, positive trade policy contribution to surmount this pandemic are presen…
The WTO after TPP
This paper critically evaluates the contention that the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would adversely affect the centrality of the World Trade Organization. Not only are many Asian nations members of the WTO, but some undertook major reforms to join. Contrary to much existing literature, it is argued here that governments in the Asia-Pacific region should not be alarmed by the fate of this mega-regional trade deal
A Fragmenting Global Economy: A Weakened WTO, Mega FTAs, and Murky Protectionism
Since the onset of the recent global financial crisis, the threats to the non-discriminatory roots of the world trading system, long a key element of the liberal global order, have grown in prominence and risk becoming entrenched. Governments have repeatedly circumvented Most Favored Nation and National Treatment principles as they sought advantage for domestic commercial interests during an era where postwar assumptions about global economic gov…
Rebalancing the global economy: A Primer for Policymaking
This new eBook aims to provide policymakers and their advisers with up-to-date, comprehensive analyses of the central facets of global economic imbalances and to identify and evaluate potential national and systemic responses to this challenge.--Publisher description
What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some long-standing features of protectionism appear to have endured (such as the distribution of discriminatory measures across economic sectors), specific corporate needs arising from the global financial crisis and particular national attributes are more …
Aid for Trade and the “Missing Middle” of the World Trade Organization
As part of the Doha Department Agenda, many members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and, in particular, its director-general have actively promoted the so-called Aid for Trade Initiative. Rather than offer a comprehensive account of this initiative, the purpose here is to consider its implications for proposals to fill in the WTO's missing middle, that is, for suggestions to develop the WTO's non-negotiating, non-juridical, deliberative fun…
An Interim Assessment of the U.S. Trade Policy of 'Competitive Liberalization'
The Gravity Equation in International Economics: Theory and Evidence
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on South African Exports
In the mid‐1980s many nations imposed sanctions on South African exports, most of which were subsequently removed during 1991–3. I estimate the effect of eight industrialized economies’ sanctions on their imports from South Africa. Outliers are found to strongly influence the parameter estimates. Failure to take account of them leads to the conclusion that sanctions by the (then) European Communities most adversely affected South African exports.…
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
We examine whether two important theories of trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the increasing returns theory, can account for the empirical success of the so-called gravity equation. Since versions of both theories can predict this equation, we tackle the model identi-fication problem by conditioning bilateral trade relations on factor endowment differences and on the share of intraindustry trade. Only for large differences in factor endowmen…
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
We examine whether two important theories of trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the increasing returns theory, can account for the empirical success of the so-called gravity equation. Since versions of both theories can predict this equation, we tackle the model identi-fication problem by conditioning bilateral trade relations on factor endowment differences and on the share of intraindustry trade. Only for large differences in factor endowmen…
Power transition and the regulatory state in large emerging markets: Norm‐breaking after the global financial crisis
I examine the ways in which the global financial crisis that began in 2007, and whose effects arguably condition policymaking to the present day, affected the ongoing global power transition as manifested by the unilateral decisions undertaken by official agencies comprising national regulatory states. The theory of that power transition articulated in the overview paper of this Special Issue is reinterpreted to take into account the circumstance…
Aid for Trade and the “Missing Middle” of the World Trade Organization
As part of the Doha Department Agenda, many members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and, in particular, its director-general have actively promoted the so-called Aid for Trade Initiative. Rather than offer a comprehensive account of this initiative, the purpose here is to consider its implications for proposals to fill in the WTO's missing middle, that is, for suggestions to develop the WTO's non-negotiating, non-juridical, deliberative fun…
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on South African Exports
In the mid‐1980s many nations imposed sanctions on South African exports, most of which were subsequently removed during 1991–3. I estimate the effect of eight industrialized economies’ sanctions on their imports from South Africa. Outliers are found to strongly influence the parameter estimates. Failure to take account of them leads to the conclusion that sanctions by the (then) European Communities most adversely affected South African exports.…
The Gravity Equation in International Economics: Theory and Evidence
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on South African Exports
In the mid‐1980s many nations imposed sanctions on South African exports, most of which were subsequently removed during 1991–3. I estimate the effect of eight industrialized economies’ sanctions on their imports from South Africa. Outliers are found to strongly influence the parameter estimates. Failure to take account of them leads to the conclusion that sanctions by the (then) European Communities most adversely affected South African exports.…
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
We examine whether two important theories of trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the increasing returns theory, can account for the empirical success of the so-called gravity equation. Since versions of both theories can predict this equation, we tackle the model identi-fication problem by conditioning bilateral trade relations on factor endowment differences and on the share of intraindustry trade. Only for large differences in factor endowmen…
An Interim Assessment of the U.S. Trade Policy of 'Competitive Liberalization'
What Can Be Learned From Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment
Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some long-standing features of protectionism appear to have endured (such as the distribution of discriminatory measures across economic sectors), specific corporate needs arising from the global financial crisis and particular national attributes are more …
Aid for Trade and the “Missing Middle” of the World Trade Organization
As part of the Doha Department Agenda, many members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and, in particular, its director-general have actively promoted the so-called Aid for Trade Initiative. Rather than offer a comprehensive account of this initiative, the purpose here is to consider its implications for proposals to fill in the WTO's missing middle, that is, for suggestions to develop the WTO's non-negotiating, non-juridical, deliberative fun…
Rebalancing the global economy: A Primer for Policymaking
This new eBook aims to provide policymakers and their advisers with up-to-date, comprehensive analyses of the central facets of global economic imbalances and to identify and evaluate potential national and systemic responses to this challenge.--Publisher description
A Fragmenting Global Economy: A Weakened WTO, Mega FTAs, and Murky Protectionism
Since the onset of the recent global financial crisis, the threats to the non-discriminatory roots of the world trading system, long a key element of the liberal global order, have grown in prominence and risk becoming entrenched. Governments have repeatedly circumvented Most Favored Nation and National Treatment principles as they sought advantage for domestic commercial interests during an era where postwar assumptions about global economic gov…
The WTO after TPP
This paper critically evaluates the contention that the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would adversely affect the centrality of the World Trade Organization. Not only are many Asian nations members of the WTO, but some undertook major reforms to join. Contrary to much existing literature, it is argued here that governments in the Asia-Pacific region should not be alarmed by the fate of this mega-regional trade deal
Sicken thy neighbour: The initial trade policy response to Covid‐19
Since the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, many governments have limited exports of medical supplies and medicines. Pre‐pandemic barriers to imports of medical supplies and soap remain largely in place. Having characterised trade policy stance towards COVID‐19‐related goods, this study critically assesses the resort to export curbs and import taxes. Elements of an alternative, positive trade policy contribution to surmount this pandemic are presen…
Power transition and the regulatory state in large emerging markets: Norm‐breaking after the global financial crisis
I examine the ways in which the global financial crisis that began in 2007, and whose effects arguably condition policymaking to the present day, affected the ongoing global power transition as manifested by the unilateral decisions undertaken by official agencies comprising national regulatory states. The theory of that power transition articulated in the overview paper of this Special Issue is reinterpreted to take into account the circumstance…
Trade policy responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic crisis: Evidence from a new data set
This paper presents new high‐frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week‐by‐week basis. The data set reveals a rapid increase in trade policy activism in February and March 2020 in tandem with the rise in COVID‐19 cases but also uncovers extensive heterogeneity across count…
Towards meaningful transparency at the WTO: Reinforcing the trade policy review mechanism 1
We characterise the operation of the World Trade Organization's Trade Policy Review as an exercise, albeit valuable, in performative transparency. We describe steps taken by the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade to augment this review process so as contribute towards meaningful transparency. Drawing from recent Trade Policy Reviews of G20 countries, specific examples are described where revealing evidence was provided that facilit…
Deterring Digital Trade Without Discrimination
Commercial activity and regulatory oversight of the digital economy are growing apace. This essay argues that regulatory heterogeneity can deter digital trade without discrimination. Domestic policies that are not discriminatory can still result in fragmentation of the global digital economy, if sufficiently heterogeneous. We find that rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in digital trade agreements offer important directions but insuf…
The return of industrial policy in data
This paper introduces the New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO) data set and documents emergent patterns of policy intervention during 2023 associated with the return of industrial policy. The data show that the recent wave of new industrial policy activity is primarily driven by advanced economies and that subsidies are the most employed instrument. Trade restrictions on imports and exports are more frequently used by emerging market and deve…
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