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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a …
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The not-so-generalized effects of the generalized system of preferences
Ornelas, Emanuel; Ritel, Marcos - 2018
-so-poor beneficiaries also expand foreign sales, but only if they are not WTO members. For all others, the average export effects of NRTPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924652
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469280
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The economic impact of deepening trade agreements
Fontagné, Lionel; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele; … - 2022
This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We cluster 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimate the trade elasticity for the different clusters. We then use these elasticities in a series...
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Small countries and preferential trade agreements : how severe is the innocent Bystander problem?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2000
This paper examines the welfare implications of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) from the perspective of small countries in the context of a multi-country, general equilibrium model. We calibrate our model to represent one relatively small country and two symmetric big countries. We consider...
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Politicized trade : what drives withdrawal of trade preferences?
Gassebner, Martin; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2017
While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...
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Deep trade agreements and FDI in partial and general equilibrium : a structural estimation framework
Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
We quantify the relationships between deep trade liberalization and foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we focus on the effects of Deep Trade Agreements (DTAs), and we rely on a structural framework that simultaneously enables us to (i) estimate the direct impact of DTAs on FDI, (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384905
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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020
textile and clothing exporters' monthly transactions and exploit the exogenous increase in competition following the removal … price and frequency of export transactions and with a reduction in average distance of firms' exports. We rationalize our …-income markets. These changes in export patterns imply that advanced economies become more specialized in "fast-fashion" - exporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171758
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The impact of trade agreements on world export prices
Flach, Lisandra; Gräf, Fabian - 2018
export price data combined with data on 32 WTO (World Trade Organization) accessions by developing countries and hundreds of … increase in export prices of differentiated goods. For WTO, this effect is captured by the developing countries that were … particular, we find that PTAs with provisions on investments are associated with higher export prices. The results are consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846155
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Deep trade agreements and heterogeneous firms exports
Neri-Lainé, Matteo; Orefice, Gianluca; Ruta, Michele - 2023
depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282415