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Preferences, rent destruction and multilateral liberalisation : the building block effect of CUSFTA

Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - 2012

partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external …

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Trade liberalization along the firm size distribution : the case of the EU-South Korea FTA

Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2021

In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on non-tariff barriers (NTBs), it is a leading example of a deep new generation agreement. Using detailed French customs data for the period 2000 to 2016, we investigate how exporters of different size...

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Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?

Besedeš, Tibor; Kohl, Tristan; Lake, James - 2019

What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could...

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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019

Three years ago, very few economists would have imagined that one of the newest and fastest growing research areas in international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major countries' economic integration agreements (EIAs)....

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The impact of NAFTA on prices and competition : evidence from Mexican manufacturing plants

Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken; Mei, Yuan; Santamarina, Pablo Robles - 2019 - This version: April 3, 2019

This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants' prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...

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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction...

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Political competition and the strategic adoption of free trade agreements

Ornelas, Emanuel - 2024

I study how political competition affects the feasibility of free trade agreements (FTAs). I show that the possibility of political turnover creates strategic motivations for the formation of FTAs. Specifically, a government facing a high enough probability of losing power will have an incentive...

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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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Globalization for sale

Blanga-Gubbay, Michael; Conconi, Paola; Parenti, Mathieu - 2020

We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying … reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs …) support their ratification. Moreover, relative to non-lobbying firms, lobbying firms are larger, and more likely to be engaged …

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Pitfalls in the use of ad valorem equivalent representations of the trade impacts of domestic policies

Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

Numerical simulation exercises to analyze the impacts of potential changes in non-tariff policies commonly use ad valorem equivalent tariff treatment even though estimated impacts using explicit model representation and ad valorem equivalent treatments will differ. The difficulty for modellers...

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