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The economic integration of Europe and the problem of international specialized communities
Vito, Francesco - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 123 (2013) 3-4, pp. 437-448
This article focuses on the features and the working of the European Coal and Steel Community, seen as a first step in the ongoing process of European Integration. In Vito’s view the integration process would bear many economic advantages not only for the high concentrated sectors of Steel and...
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Multilateralism and regionalism from an American perspective: Parallels and contrasts with the Langhammer vision
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013), pp. 1-18
this backdrop, Hufbauer expects regionalism to become the strongest vehicle for delivering liberalization in the future …
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Challenges to the multilateral trading system and possible responses
Panagariya, Arvind - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013), pp. 1-25
This paper develops three major themes. First, the atmosphere of gloom around the multilateral trading system due to dim prospects of a successful conclusion of the Doha Round notwithstanding, global trade regime remains open and the institution in charge of it, the World Trade Organization, is...
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Regional Trade Agreements
Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - In: Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 139-166
This article reviews the theoretical and the empirical literature on regionalism. The formation of regional trade … also several aspects of regionalism that have received too little attention from researchers, but which are central to …
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Chapter 7. The Purpose of Trade Agreements
Grossman, G.M. - 2016
In this chapter, I review the literature on governments’ motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the chapter focuses on the purpose of...
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Sequencing regionalism: Theory, European practice, and lessons for Asia
Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Feedback mechanisms are the key to sequencing when it comes to regional integration. Feedback mechanisms can mean that today’s policy or institution alters the political economy landscape in a way that makes it politically optimal for future governments to take further steps towards...
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The 'Emulator Effect' of the Uruguay Round on US Regionalism
Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners...
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Large Countries, Small Countries and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs
Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Are there systematic forces such that countries of different sizes participating in a free trade bloc gain differently from the entry of new members? If economies of scale imply that firms located in large countries enjoy lower costs, then the gains from enlarging the bloc will fall...
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Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade
Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
forces might drive them, and what the WTO might do to guide them. Two facts form the point of departure: 1) Regionalism is … multilateralisation of regionalism. The paper presents the political economy logic of trade liberalisation and uses it to structure a … building blocs – whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the multilateralisation of regionalism. Finally, the paper …
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Trade Liberalization and Globalization: A Survey
Hillman, Arye L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization allows for protectionist policies, and why...
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