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Competing liberalizations : tariffs and trade in the 21st century
Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Guimbard, Houssein; Jean, … - 2016
2013. WTO commitments (1.0 p.p. average cut) and unilateral liberalizations on a most-favored-nation (MFN) basis (1.3 p …
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The free rider effect and market power in trade agreements
Wong, Woan Foong - 2023
. Both these agreements are governed by the WTO and have to abide by the non-discriminatory (Most-Favored Nation, MFN) clause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014430728
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E-globalization and trade agreements
McCalman, Phillip - 2023
The global success of online search engines and social media is due to their free access and high level of quality. However, these features are supported by a business model that exploits personal user data to provide targeted advertising services to third parties. Does this business model...
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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020
equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …
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Contesting an international trade agreement
Cole, Matthew T.; Lake, James; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2018
We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a "parallel contest", that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each other...
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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements
Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012
) Agreement within the GATT/WTO system. -- trade agreements ; trade policy credibility ; subsidy rules ; GATT/WTO …
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China's anti-dumping problems and mitigation through regional trade agreements
Sun, Yanlin; Whalley, John - 2015
This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD provisions. Case studies on RTAs give precedents in...
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Peeling away the layers : impacts of durable tariff elimination
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Henn, Christian - 2018
effects are sizable. The WTO Information Technology Agreement's (ITA) unique setting allows us to overcome the challenges … elimination, through WTO bindings, adds a further two layers, boosting both imports and exports more than equivalent unilateral …
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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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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014
America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469280