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How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA
Cadot, Olivier; Carrère, Céline; de Melo, Jaime; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper estimates the effective market access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel by combining two approaches. First, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences and rules of origin on the border prices of Mexican final goods exported to the US and of US intermediates exported to...
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Rules of Origin in North-South Preferential Trading Arrangements with an Application to NAFTA
Anson, José; Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
All preferential trading agreements (PTAs) short of a customs union use Rules of Origin (RoO) to prevent trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136492
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FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence
de Melo, Jaime; Ivlevs, Artjoms - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124277
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The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries
Carrère, Céline; de Melo, Jaime; Wilson, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s …—i.e. the low-income countries according to the World Bank classification, 2006). We show that this group has intensified trade … their trade at both extensive and intensive margins (regionalization of trade is absent for the other countries). Combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528539
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Income convergence across asian economies : an empirical exploration
Ghatak, Sunetra; De, Prabir - In: Journal of Asia Pacific business 22 (2021) 3, pp. 182-200
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649658
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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?
de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists … reduction in emissions. A second exercise comparing the actual trade situation with an autarky benchmark estimates that trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504371
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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025513
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Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
It is often alleged that PTAs involving the EC and the US include a significant number of obligations in areas not currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental protection. The primary purpose of this study is...
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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute settlement mechanism. We then discuss the two main themes in the empirical literature on dispute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662281
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The Europe Agreements and EC-LDC Relations
Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Countries (CEECs) for the EC's traditional links with ACP countries. After reviewing some important aspects of the trade regime … that they give only marginal trade preference to the CEECs. The paper also considers FDI and aid flows and argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662406