Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite you to the following event

International Conference
Quantifying Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Investment

Date: 18-19 January 2018
Venue: Economics Faculty at the University of Vienna (Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna)
Link: Registration

Background & Outline:
Over the past fifty years, there has been significant progress in lowering tariff barriers to international trade. This has led to a growing awareness of the importance of what are termed the 'new' Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs). The relevance of these new NTMs has grown with the rising importance of global sourcing and multinational enterprises. Today, with the dominance of global value chains and the increased tradability of non-tangible products, we are confronted with new and important questions about the impact of NTMs on competitiveness and productivity.

Against this background, the international research project PRONTO was called into life in order to analyse regulatory barriers to trade. Between 2014 and 2017, the team working on PRONTO sought new and better data, better methodologies, and a better understanding of the impact of new NTMs on international investment and trade.

Apart from presenting the main results of the PRONTO network, the conference will focus on:

Quantifying the incidence of NTMs in goods and services
Costs, benefits and regulatory objectives of NTMs
Sustainabilty and the regulation of trade and investment
Quantifying the social and economic impacts of NTMs
Political economy determinants of NTMs
NTMs and global and regional supply chains

The conference is organized by The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), in collaboration with the World Trade Institute (WTI), the University College Dublin (UCD) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). It receives funding from the 7th EU Framework Program.

Enclosed, you find the conference agenda. Please feel free to circulate our invitation to interested colleagues.

Best rergards,

Veronika Janyrova