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-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the … GSP expansion increased African exports of other eligible products. While the marginal impacts on African apparel exports …
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through the Generalized System of Preferences, affect the exports of the beneficiary nations. In line with existing studies … effect on the exports of beneficiaries when they are members of the World Trade Organization and are very poor. Not …-so-poor beneficiaries also expand foreign sales, but only if they are not WTO members. For all others, the average export effects of NRTPs …
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.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits to see whether political friends of the U.S. receive favorable treatment. While …
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data, we find that Japan's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) acted as a stumbling block for the country's external …
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We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they form Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower preferential margins when the bloc takes the form of a free trade area...
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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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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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This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the … depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …
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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 …
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How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …
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