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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 economic stimulation, with trade as a driving force to create growth and wealth. Since customs duties are already low, the success of the liberalization process hinges on the...

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Trade flows and trade specialisation : the case of China

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2015

Using annual data for the period 1992 - 2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners in Asia, North America and Europe, and whether increasing trade has led to industrial structural adjustment and changes in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both...

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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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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...

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The deepening China Brazil economic relationship

Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - 2010

We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil …'s largest export market while Brazil's export share to the US has halved. The number of bilateral cooperation agreements between …

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On the causes of Brexit

Ágúst Arnórsson; Gylfi Zoega - 2016

We analyse the voting pattern in the June 23rd referendum on the continued participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union and evaluate the reasons for the results. We find that regions where GDP per capita is low, a high proportion of people have low education, a high proportion is...

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The Brexit conundrum worsens the UK's relationship with the European Union

Ryan, John T. - 2019

This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...

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Consequences of Brexit and options for a "global Britain"

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Kohl, Tristan - 2017 - This version: April 19, 2017

The United Kingdom has opted to leave the European Union. The trade and welfare consequences of this decision are large; most studies predict a trade and welfare loss for both the UK and the EU. The UK parliament has indicated that it aims for new and ambitious trade agreements following Brexit,...

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On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements : lessons from twenty years of trade integration

Baier, Scott L.; Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas - 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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Atlantic versus Pacific agreement in agri-food sectors : does the winner take it all?

Disdier, Anne-Célia; Emlinger, Charlotte; Fouré, Jean - 2015 - This version: July 27, 2015

Trade liberalization of the agri-food sector is a sensitive topic in both Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions. Using a general equilibrium model, we assess the potential impact of these agreements. The US agri-food sectors would...

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