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This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the … difficulties these agreements create in moving to an Asian trade bloc centred on them …
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After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy … continues to negotiate with countries such as Japan, Panama, Uruguay or Argentina. Criticism of multiple regional trade … model of equilibrium, along with a political economy approach of why Mexico seeks multiple RTAs as its foreign trade policy …
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general incomplete-contracting theory of trade agreements …
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multi-country, multi-sector, multi-factor model of world production and trade with global input-output linkages. Revoking …
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the liberalization of global service trade, which is one of the causes of the only slowing improving of service efficiency … difficult for developing countries to be granted SDT in service. In the last part we present some suggestions on trade …
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A large and growing number of countries participate in multiple preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which … increasingly entail broad cooperation over policies extending far beyond trade barriers. I review the traditional and non …-traditional motives for PTAs and their empirical determinants as well as their impacts on trade and on multilateral liberalization. I …
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What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We review a literature on this … of these design features in trade agreements …
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This paper reviews 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 … governments forming preferential or regional trade agreements that exclude some countries …
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We challenge the conventional wisdom on the variety and productivity gains from trade liberalization which are commonly … referred to as "new" gains from trade. In particular, we show that the import variety gains measured in studies such as Broda … then account for all these gains and losses in an application to the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and show that Canada …
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empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, we introduce supply chain linkages into a … workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political economy. Theory predicts that discretionary final goods tariffs … test these predictions using newly assembled data on bilateral applied tariffs, temporary trade barriers, and value …
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