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Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform … sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms … are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples …

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Concertina Reforms with International Capital Mobility

Kreickemeier, Udo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We show that the standard concertina result for tariff reforms -- i.e. lowering the highest tariff increases welfare … tariff is lowered is not capital intensive. If the concertina reform lowers welfare it lowers market access as well, thereby …

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Tariff-Tax Reforms and Market Access

Kreickemeier, Udo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

increase in welfare and government revenues. The present paper examines whether the country that implements such a reform ends … follow both as far as it concerns market access and welfare. …

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Middlemen, Non-Profits and Poverty

Chau, Nancy H; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a 'fair-trade' premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...

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Can South-South Trade Liberalisation Stimulate North-South Trade?

Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper uses a combination of Ethier (1982) and Melitz's (2003) models to show that liberalizing trade among developing countries, so-called South-South trade, could contribute to improve the access to international markets of developing countries' would-be exporters. Lower trade barriers...

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Why OECD Countries should Reform Rules of Origin

Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

With preferential trading Agreements (PTAs) on the rise worldwide with multiple memberships, rules of origin-- which are necessary to prevent trade deflection --are attracting increasing attention. At the same time, preference erosion for GSP recipients is threatening the viability of the...

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Disentangling Market Access Effects for ASEAN Members Under an ASEAN-EU FTA

Carrère, Céline; de Melo, Jaime; Tumurchudur, Bolormaa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The paper develops two synthetic measures at the HS-10 level to depict effective market access for a country receiving preferential access and applies these to the market access ASEAN members would receive on impact following the implementation of an FTA with the EU. These measures reveal quite...

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Multilateral Trade Cooperation: What Next?

Hoekman, Bernard; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple bargaining model of international negotiations, which can be used for understanding the Doha round of talks. This simple framework is used to distil and discuss a number of potential explanations...

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The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets

Carrère, Céline; de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

LDCs hoped that the DOHA round would bring them greater market access in OECD countries than for non-LDCs. Using HS-6 tariff level data for the US and the EU for 2004, this paper estimates that, once the erosion from preferential access into the EU to non-LDCs is taken into account, LDCs have...

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Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets?

Fontagne, Lionel; Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We identify in this Paper the level of trade integration between the three largest economic powers of the world, often called the Triad: The United States, the EU and Japan. We focus on measuring possible asymmetries in market access between members of the Triad using border effects between each...

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