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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
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Are Regional Trade Agreements in Asia Stumbling or Building Blocks? : Some Implications for the Mekong-3 Countries
Tumbarello, Patrizia - 2007
Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of turning into an unmanageable ""noodle bowl"" in the future? The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this question. The results show that membership in the Asian RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400352
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Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession : Which is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the Cis
Tumbarello, Patrizia - 2005
This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the … implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for … WTO accession, this may cause delays that benefit some countries at the expense of others. The paper simulates the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400926
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Trade Integration in the East African Community : An Assessment for Kenya
McIntyre, Meredith A. - 2005
The paper analyses the potential trade impact of the forthcoming East African Community (EAC) customs union. It examines the trade linkages among the member countries of the EAC and the extent to which the introduction of the EAC common external tariff will liberalize their trade regimes. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400690
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On the Widely Differing Effects of Free Trade Agreements : Lessons from Twenty Years of Trade Integration
Baier, Scott L. - 2016
We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977471
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
the “coherence gap” in global governance. This paper examines the contribution that the WTO can make in its three areas of … argument that could be made for the use of WTO-triggered trade actions to enforce cooperative behaviour towards rebalancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818
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Value of WTO trade agreements in a new Keynesian model
Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha - 2015
We revisit the question of the quantitative benefits of WTO trade agreements in a setup that is non-standard from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281913
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NAFTA to USMCA : what is gained?
Burfisher, Mary E.; Lambert, Frederic; Matheson, Troy - 2019
The United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed on November 30, 2018 and aims to replace and modernize the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, multisector, computable-general-equilibrium model to provide an analytical assessment of five key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009997
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Understanding the Latest Wave and Future Shape of Regional Trade and Cooperation Agreements in Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021
Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317319
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The Silent Success of Customs Unions
Gnutzmann, Hinnerk - 2016
While “mega FTAs” and WTO-driven efforts at multilateral liberalisation dominate the agenda, customs unions (CU) are … the silent success story of regional integration. Throughout the world, CUs have been superseding earlier FTAs, as new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986938