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Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
Romalis, John; Amiti, Mary - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599383
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Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA
Mayda, Anna Maria; Steinberg, Chad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769302
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Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?
Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not … embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the … extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a country's export sector and finds that for many developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599612
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Growth Slowdowns and the Middle-Income Trap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Duval, Romain A; Puy, Damien; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The “middle-income trap” is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ranks of high-income countries. In this study we examine the middle-income trap as a special case of growth slowdowns, which are identified as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790409
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The Impact of Tradeon Wages; What If Countries Are Not Small?
Tokutsu, Ichiro; Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper explores the effect of trade on the relative wage of less-skilled labor through its effect on world prices, which are typically exogenously given under the small open economy assumption. Using the 1995 international input-output data for APEC member countries, we numerically simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263956
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Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited; Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects
Papageorgiou, Chris; Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their empirical support. To account for the model uncertainty that surrounds the validity of the competing PTA theories, we introduce Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to the PTA literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263980
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Border and Behind-The-Border Trade Barriers and Country Exports
Sadikov, Azim M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
country's exports? To answer this question, I develop a model where a country can export two types of products: differentiated … and homogeneous. I show that export signatures and registration procedures reduce overall exports by increasing … price data on differentiated products due to their heterogeneity makes them more sensitive to export signatures. Regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825677
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In Search of WTO Trade Effects; Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly
Eicher, Theo S.; Henn, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose's (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826257
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Armington Elasticities in Intermediate Inputs Trade; A Problem in Using Multilateral Trade Data
Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper finds that the estimates of Armington elasticities (the elasticity of substitution between groups of products identified by country of origin) obtained from multilateral trade data can differ from those obtained from bilateral trade data. In particular, the former tends to be higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826347
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Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict; The Case of the Central African Republic
Lewis, Mark; Nachega, Jean-Claude; Bakhache, Said; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a postconflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade performance. Several other measures are considered, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768991