Factors Affecting the Duration of WTO Accession Negotiations

Student: Kononova Nataliya

Supervisor: Konstantin K. Kozlov

Faculty: International College of Economics and Finance

Educational Programme: Double degree programme in Economics of the NRU HSE and the University of London (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The main goal of my study is to expose factors that influence the duration of trade negotiations with model international organizations using the example of WTO accession negotiations. I am going to discuss and analyze economic and political determinants on the cross-sectional data of 50 countries that have entered World Trade organization (and GATT) during the time 1970-2016.

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