Do We Really Know That the WTO Increases Trade? Comment

By Michael Tomz, Judith S. Goldstein, Doug Rivers. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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The Effect of WTO on the Extensive and the Intensive Margins of Trade (2013, methodology): “Finally, we followed Tomz et al. (2007) and reclassified de facto members outside the WTO also as WTO members.”
Why Should I Believe You? The Costs and Consequences of Bilateral Investment Treaties (2009, unknown): “Dyad fixed effects are increasingly viewed as the most appropriate technique in analyzing dyadic trade flows (Subramanian and Wei 2007; Tomz, Goldstein, and Rivers 2007).”
Do Economic Integration Agreements Actually Work? Issues in Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism (2008, unknown): “…than our estimates of 5.6 and 3.5 per cent annually, respectively, over 1960–2000.20 By contrast, our estimate for OEIAij membership was 0.63, which is considerably lower than comparable estimates using similar specifications in Rose (2004) and Tomz et al. (2007) of 0.94 and 0.76, respectively.”
In search of WTO trade effects: Preferential trade agreements promote trade strongly, but unevenly (2011, unknown): “When Tomz et al. (2007, henceforth TGR) updated Rose's dataset to include both de jure and de facto WTO membership, they found positive WTO trade effects.”
Do Trade Agreements Stimulate International Trade Differently? Evidence from 296 Trade Agreements (2013, unknown): “© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd on countries’ WTO participation status are from Tomz et al. (2007).”
Optimal Tariffs, Retaliation and the Welfare Loss from Tariff Wars in the Melitz Model (2011, background): “5See Rose (2004), Subramanian and Wei (2007) and Tomz et al. (2007).”
The WTO trade effect (2011, methodology): “We base our analysis on the Rose (2004) data set,5 although we will also use the Tomz et al. (2007) data set in Section 5.2 as one of the robustness checks.”