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Macroeconomic Potentials of Transatlantic Free Trade : A High Resolution Perspective for Europe and the World

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant trade policy initiative since the Uruguay Round (1986 to 1994). It would create a free trade zone covering 45% of world GDP. However, critics dismiss the possible welfare gains as small compared to the...

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On the Widely Differing Effects of Free Trade Agreements : Lessons from Twenty Years of Trade Integration

Baier, Scott L. - 2016

We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...

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Going Deep : The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP

Aichele, Rahel - 2015

Since July 2013, the EU and the US have been negotiating a preferential trade agreement (PTA), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and international input-output linkages to quantify its potential...

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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2014

Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …

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China's Anti-Dumping Problems and Mitigation Through Regional Trade Agreements

Sun, Yanlin; Whalley, John - 2021

This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD provisions. Case studies on RTAs give precedents in...

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Trade Agreements

Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...

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Understanding the Latest Wave and Future Shape of Regional Trade and Cooperation Agreements in Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021

Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high growth rates, Asia is still facing considerable socio-economic challenges. If Asia is to reemerge as a major power in the global economy and in order for the region to...

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The Silent Success of Customs Unions

Gnutzmann, Hinnerk - 2016

While “mega FTAs” and WTO-driven efforts at multilateral liberalisation dominate the agenda, customs unions (CU) are the silent success story of regional integration. Throughout the world, CUs have been superseding earlier FTAs, as new unions were formed or old ones expanded. Due to problems...

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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy

Liu, Xuepeng - 2013

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This...

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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality

Hirte, Georg - 2014

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...

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