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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...
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Do China and Russia undermine US sanctions? : evidence from DiD and event study estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
A frequently employed argument against imposing international sanctions is that rival superpowers are likely to bust sanctions to simultaneously shield the target, harm the sender, and make a profit. We evaluate the legitimacy of this concern by studying the effect of US sanctions on trade flows...
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Economy wide impact of the trade integration between Japan and India : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013
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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Integrating India with Asian production networks : prospects and challenges
Nag, Biswajit; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Debdeep - 2015
toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of "Make in India", India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from … India's perspective. It also examines the trends and patterns; and prospects of integration as well as the prospects for …
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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
. However, since 1991, South Asia, particularly India has adopted a "Look East" policy and opened its market raising huge …
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Trade disruption, industrialisation, and the setting sun of British colonial rule in India
Bonfatti, Roberto; Brey, Björn - 2020
examine the impact of the temporary collapse in trade between Britain and India due to World War I, on industrialisation and … anti-imperial feelings in India. Exploiting cross-district variation in exposure to the trade shock stemming from initial …
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The economic impact of deepening trade agreements
Fontagné, Lionel; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele; … - 2022
This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We cluster 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimate the trade elasticity for the different clusters. We then use these elasticities in a series...
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Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they form Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower preferential margins when the bloc takes the form of a free trade area...
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Tariff bindings and the dynamic formation of Preferential Trade Agreements
Lake, James; Nken, Moïse; Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2019
We show that multilateral tariff binding liberalization substantially impacts the nature and extent of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) formation. First, it shapes the nature of forces constraining expansion of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The constraining force is a free riding incentive of...
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GVCs and the endogenous geography of RTAs
Fontagné, Lionel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018
Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all signed RTAs are "natural" according to economic determinants. En-dogeneity and general equilibrium effects of RTAS are the two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate...
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