Author: Hoekman, Bernard; Shingal, Anirudh; Eknath, Varun; Ereshchenko, Viktoriya
Title: COVIDâ€19, public procurement regimes and trade policy Cord-id: aak1q2ob Document date: 2021_3_6
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Snippet: This paper analyses a prominent dimension of the initial policy response to the COVIDâ€19 pandemic observed in many countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to facilitate imports. Using weekly data on the use of trade policy instruments during the first seven months of the COVIDâ€19 pandemic (January–July, 2020), we assess the relationship between the use of trade policy instruments and attributes of preâ€crisis public procurement regulation. Controlling for country size
Document: This paper analyses a prominent dimension of the initial policy response to the COVIDâ€19 pandemic observed in many countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to facilitate imports. Using weekly data on the use of trade policy instruments during the first seven months of the COVIDâ€19 pandemic (January–July, 2020), we assess the relationship between the use of trade policy instruments and attributes of preâ€crisis public procurement regulation. Controlling for country size, government effectiveness and economic factors, we find that use of export restrictions targeting medical products is strongly positively correlated with the total number of steps and average time required to complete procurement processes in the preâ€crisis period. Membership of trade agreements encompassing public procurement disciplines is associated with actions to facilitate trade in medical products. These findings suggest future empirical assessments of the drivers of trade policy during the pandemic should consider public procurement systems.
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