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Can and should the EU's Eastern Partnership be saved?
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2014
the EU, the paper shows that the Eastern Partnership countries, including Ukraine, by far the largest in the group, gain …
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Consequences of FTA withdrawal : evidence from "Uxit"
Gnutzmann, Hinnerk; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Korn, … - 2021
. Lately, the political opposition to international economic cooperation has been on the rise, but little is known about how … evidence. In 2004, Estonia joined the European Union, which mandated that it withdraws from its FTA with Ukraine ("Uxit … panel estimations that trade volumes between Estonia and Ukraine fell by more than 20%. We find that withdrawing an FTA …
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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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The customs union issue : why do we observe so few of them?
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor); Silva, Peri (contributor);  … - 2008
The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can be considered to be fully fledged customs unions. This paper develops a political economy model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771814
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Trade agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2009
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850514
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Is a 'Factory Southern Africa' feasible? : harnessing flying geese to the South African gateway
Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Scholvin, Sören; … - 2016
The countries comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially missing out on important development opportunities. Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting their integration. Given East Asia's...
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The silent success of customs unions
Gnutzmann, Hinnerk; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2016
While "mega FTAs" and WTO-driven efforts at multilateral liberalisation dominate the agenda, customs unions (CU) are the silent success story of regional integration. Throughout the world, CUs have been superseding earlier FTAs, as new unions were formed or old ones expanded. Due to problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487987
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Non-preferential trading clubs
Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications of non-discriminatory tariff reforms by a subset of countries, which we term a nonpreferential trading club. We show that there exist coordinated tariff reforms, accompanied by appropriate income transfers between these countries, that unambiguously...
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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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Turkish delight for some, cold Turkey for others? : The effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union
Adam, Antonis (contributor); Moutos, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...
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