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Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? Impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers

Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2016

The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years has expanded beyond traditional market access and preferential tariffs to include provisions on a wide range of issues, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt...

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Enabling participation of SMEs in international trade and production networks: Trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2014

This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production …. Logit models of SME export and IPN participation revealed the importance of several trade facilitation and related factors …. Access to a variety of external trade finance sources was found to be important to boost SME export participation, with bank …

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What does RCEP mean for insiders and outsiders? The experience of India and Sri Lanka

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2018

This paper explores the economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - Asia's largest trade agreement - on India and Sri Lanka. The findings from existing model-based studies suggest that India, as an insider economy, will potentially gain from the RCEP while...

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Tariffs in New Zealand : The economic impacts of retaining tariffs in New Zealand A dynamic CGE analysis

Ballingall, John; Giesecke, James; Zuccollo, James - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The government announced in late 2009 that it would freeze tariffs at current levels until 2015 at the earliest. We examine the potential costs and benefits to the New Zealand economy of this policy decision using a recently-developed dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the New...

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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013

The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian â€˜noodle bowlâ€™ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...

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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms

Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014

This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …

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