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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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Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement : Synthesis and Overview
Hertel, Thomas W.; Winters, L. Alan - 2012
are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554212
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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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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Fran??ois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2012
WTO-based concern. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554187
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The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements and Trade Facilitation in the Middle East North Africa Region
Dennis, Allen - 2012
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing. Efforts to boost trade through a plethora of regional trade agreements (RTAs) are underway. This study examines the potential contribution of regional trade agreements, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553661
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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements
Manchin, Miriam; Pelkmans-Balaoing, Annette O. - 2012
The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might possibly generate some trade-chilling effects. They review characteristics of existing preferential trade agreements with special emphasis on lessons from the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552723
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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
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The Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhon-Bi, Simplice G.; Nielsen, Lynge - 2012
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552716