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Quantifying the economic effects of an EU-Japan free trade agreement
Benz, Sebastian; Yalçin, Erdal - 2013
The European Union and Japan have recently launched negotiations about a bilateral free trade agreement as means of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764931
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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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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002
In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high-income member countries) prefer a mutual market-opening with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409769
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Quantifying the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kimura, Fukunari; Okubo, Toshihiro; … - 2018
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903006
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US inequality in the 1980s : the Tokyo round trade liberalization and the Swiss Formula
Greenland, Andrew; Lake, James; Lopresti, John - 2024
Against a backdrop of sharply rising inequality, the Tokyo Round of the GATT resulted in a 1.6 percentage point reduction in average US tariffs – larger than CUS-FTA, NAFTA, and the liberalization accompanying the granting of PNTR to China. We construct a novel IV based on the so-called...
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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
Trade reforms in transition economies are analyzed in a model of trade and vertical product differentiation. We first show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the local firm s output and raises the prices of all variants. Second, we find that neither free trade nor the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398110
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Growth and trade with frictions : a structural estimation framework
Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2015
We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through changes in consumer and producer prices that in turn stimulate or impede physical capital accumulation. At the same time, growth affects trade, directly through changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298529
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The impact of trade liberalization on industrial productivity
Segerstrom, Paul Stephen; Sugita, Yoichi - 2013 - First version: June 22, 2012, Current version: June 28, 2013
This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786088
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Trade liberalization and environmental taxation in federal systems
Fredriksson, Per; Matschke, Xenia - 2014
The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260010
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Trade, wage gaps, and specific human capital accumulation
Long, Ngo Van; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2003
We develop a new framework for the analysis of the impact of trade liberalization on the wage structure. Our model focuses on the decision of workers to accumulate firm-specific skills, by on-the-job training, knowing that this means their future wages will have to be negotiated, and that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507687