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Should TPP Be Formed? On the Potential Economic, Governance, and Conflict-Reducing Impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - 2017

The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries whose joint gross domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of world trade. As for most proposed free trade...

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Should TPP be formed? : on the potential economic, governance, and conflict-reducing impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 3, pp. 279-309

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Asian FTAs : trends and challenges

Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2009

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the negative effects of Asian FTAs, including the "noodle bowl" problem. Amid slow progress in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha...

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FTAs and Philippine business : evidence from transport, food, and electronics firms

Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Lazaro, Dorothea; DeGuzman, Genevieve - 2010

include the availability of export processing zone incentive schemes, low most-favored-nation rates (particularly in …

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How do FTAs affect exporting firms in Thailand?

Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Olfindo, Rosechin; Wisarn Pupphavesa; … - 2010

estimated to be less than 1% of export sales; (iv) more than half the sample firms have consulted with government and business …

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Asian FTAs : Trends, Prospects, and Challenges

Kawai, Masahiro - 2010

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the negative effects of Asian FTAs, including the “noodle bowl” problem. Amid slow progress in the World Trade Organization's (WTO)...

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Economic Implications of Asian Integration

Francois, Joseph F. - 2008

The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives in Asia highlighting the bridging of the East and South Asian economies. We place emphasis on the...

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Asian FTAs : Trends and Challenges

Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2009

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the negative effects of Asian FTAs, including the “noodle bowl” problem. Amid slow progress in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO)...

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

and empirically the influence of variable and fixed export costs in explaining the likely heterogeneity in the trade … motivate theoretically the roles of variable trade costs and of fixed and variable export costs, respectively, for explaining … variables, capturing variable and fixed export costs. Fourth, we show that such estimated heterogeneous effects can predict 83 …

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Regional trade agreements and enterprises in Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2013

The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian 'noodle bowl' effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs in Indonesia,...

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