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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals

Li, Chunding - 2014

This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

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Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA

Krueger, Anne O. - 1999

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a number of factors have contributed to this result. Mexican...

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Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies

Antràs, Pol - 2009

This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the...

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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs involving ASEAN Countries

Banda, O. G. Dayaratna - 2005

We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...

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The Impacts of an East Asia FTA on Foreign Trade in East Asia

Urata, Shujiro - 2003

This paper attempts to examine the impact of an East Asia FTA on trade patterns in East Asia by using a multi … Asia FTA on GDP and welfare of member countries are generally positive, while the impacts on non-members are negative … sectors increase, reflecting a shift in incentives from domestic sales to export sales. Finally, an East Asia FTA will promote …

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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA

Whalley, John - 2003

This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...

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Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements?

Whalley, John - 1996

This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between...

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Regional Trading Arrangement : Natural or Super-Natural?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1996

This paper summarizes recent research by the authors on the effects of free trade areas (FTAs). Within our model, which emphasizes inter-continental transport costs, several conclusions arise. (1) FTAs are likely to be detrimental over a moderate range of parameter values, even if drawn along...

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American Regionalism and Global Free Trade

Leamer, Edward E. - 1994

combination of Mexico and the United States doesn't form a replica of the global economy because, compared with Asia, North …

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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?

Perroni, Carlo - 1994

Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...

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