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 gain from both agreements while almost all their partners and …

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 …-state dispute settlement and argue that the TTIP will have discriminatory effects on at least some third countries. However …

of tariff liberalization in agriculture sector which is protected through stringent tariff and non-tariff barriers, Japan …

. Even with the same agreement, FTA effects are weaker for more distant pairs and for pairs with otherwise high levels of ex … addition, we are able to relate asymmetries in FTA effects to each country's ability to influence the other's terms of trade … between any pair of countries. A simulation of the general equilibrium effects of TTIP demonstrates the importance of our …

and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and … flow elasticities of trade costs and of existing PTAs. We simulate the trade, value added, and welfare effects of the TTIP … rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

world regions experience small reductions of GDP due to trade diversion effects. …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal …, featuring multiple sectors, input-output linkages, services trade, and non-tariff barriers (NTBs). It uses the results of an … econometric ex-post analysis of a related FTA, the one between the EU and Korea, in force since 2011, to approximate the expected …

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant trade policy initiative … since the Uruguay Round (1986 to 1994). It would create a free trade zone covering 45% of world GDP. However, critics … estimated general equilibrium trade model. Assuming that the TTIP will reduce transatlantic trade costs by as much as existing …

(NTBs), it is a leading example of a deep new generation agreement. Using detailed French customs data for the period 2000 …-in-diff strategy that makes use of the rich dimensionality of the data, we find that firms with larger pre-FTA sizes benefit more from … the FTA than firms at the lower end of the size distribution, both at the extensive (product) and the intensive margins of …