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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy
Liu, Xuepeng - 2013
FTAs. Hence, greater democratic instability induces governments to boost their FTA commitments. In a dataset with 116 …
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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel - CESifo - 2013
FTAs. Hence, greater democratic instability induces governments to boost their FTA commitments. In a dataset with 116 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877928
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Gains and Losses of India-China Trade Cooperation - A Gravity Model Impact Analysis
Bhattacharya, Swapan K.; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021
As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade … losses in imports of both India and China due to different preferential trading arrangements and free-trade arrangements … China's because of its high tariffs but in the long run, India's gains are higher than China's once its tariff levels are …
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Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms: Does Liberalization Matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - CESifo - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms’ efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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International Agreements, Economic Sovereignty and Exit
Richardson, Martin - 2018
We develop a model in which it is uncertainty about the future domestic policy environment that both makes international cooperation attractive and induces the possibility of a nation reneging on such an international agreement. We show, in a fairly general setting in which the likelihood of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919246
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Politicized Trade : What Drives Withdrawal of Trade Preferences?
Gassebner, Martin - 2018
While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...
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Reciprocity, World Prices and Welfare
Raimondos, Pascalis - 2011
We examine in detail the circumstances under which reciprocity, as defined in Bagwell and Staiger (1999), leads to fixed world prices. We show that a change of tariffs satisfying reciprocity does not necessarily imply constant world prices in a world of many goods and countries. While it is...
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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
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U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U.S trade preferences. We combine firm level panel data on U.S. foreign affiliate activity from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with detailed measures of U.S. trade...
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Do Trade Agreements Stimulate International Trade Differently? Evidence from 296 Trade Agreements
Kohl, Tristan - 2013
In a seminal paper, Rose (2004) found that the assumed positive impact of the WTO on international trade was questionable. This finding has been scrutinized and modified in subsequent research, using different datasets, econometric methods and separating the WTO from other forms of trade...
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