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Khatun, Fahmida - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This paper looks at some of the environment related trade measures which may appear to be trade barriers at times in the context of the WTO. It also briefly discusses WTO Agreements on environmental measures and the use of environment related trade measures. The paper finally articulates the...

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Chinese Agricultural Reform, the WTO and FTA Negotiations

Yao, Shunli - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

China's early industrialization created distortions. This paper identifies major distortions in the Chinese economy in the pre-reform era and brings agricultural distortions into perspective. Comparison is made of the reform experience in Chinese industry and agriculture. It suggests that with...

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Reforms in Indian Agro-processing and Agriculture Sectors in the Context of Unilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements

Ganesh-Kumar, A.; Panda, Manoj; Burfisher, Mary E. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

In this paper, we explore the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on Indias agro-processing sector. We consider the direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, and the indirect effects on agro-processing of policy reforms in the primary agriculture...

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Preferential Trading Agreements and Agricultural Liberalization in East and Southeast Asia

Pasadilla, Gloria O. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

The paper analyzes how various preferential trading arrangements deal with agriculture liberalization and examines a few case studies highlighting the provisions on agriculture. It assesses the effect of preferential trade agreements on agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that...

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND EVNVIRONMENTAL POLICY : HOW EFFECTIVE IS ââ‚¬ËœECO-DUMPINGââ‚¬â„¢?

Xu, Xinpeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1999

The effects of environmental regulations on the international competitiveness of domestic industries have become an increasing concern in the trade liberalisation process in the 1990s. This paper examines the significance of environmental policy for trade. A generalised GNP function, which...

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EXPORT PERFORMANCE OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE GOODS : A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Xu, Xinpeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1998

In this paper I examine whether stringent environmental standards reduce the international competitiveness of environmentally sensitive industries using a comprehensive dataset of trade flows of environmentally sensitive goods (ESGs) disaggregated at the four-digit level of the Standard...

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Graduating to Globalisation : A Study of Southern Multinationals

Demirbas, Dilek; Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

FDI by firms in developing countries is a recent phenomenon and demands a study of relationship between firm productivity and different modes of globalisation activities. This paper attempts to understand this relationship through ordered probit models, examining two key hypotheses using firm...

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Bilateral J-Curves between Pakistan and Her Trading Partners

Aftab, Zehra; Khan, Sajawal - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Earlier studies that investigated the J-Curve phenomenon for Pakistan employed aggregate trade data. These studies suffered from the aggregation bias problem. In order to overcome this constraint, this paper tests the effects of real exchange rate depreciation in the Pakistani Rupee on the...

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International Price Dispersion and Market Segmentation in Japan and the United States : Theory and Empirics

Fung, K.C.; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia; Ng, Francis - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013

York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of international price dispersion and market … Japanese and American cities, was collected and accepted by both governments. Using this data, versions of international price … dispersion theories are tested and some empirical evidence to support the view that simple international price dispersion models …

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A tale of pork prices : evasion and attenuation of a Japanese tariff

Onji, Kazuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This paper empirically examines the effectiveness of a safeguard tariff in the Japanese market for imported pork parts. The goals are, first, to consider a refinement to the traditional market-based method for evasion detection, and, second, to apply the method in a setting where evasion is...

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