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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019
2019, the existence of the entire North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is at risk if the United States withdraws - a … agreement, we examine the general equilibrium trade and welfare effects of the elimination of NAFTA (and for robustness U …
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The impact of NAFTA on prices and competition : evidence from Mexican manufacturing plants
Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken; Mei, Yuan; Santamarina, Pablo Robles - 2019 - This version: April 3, 2019
This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants' prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?
Besedeš, Tibor; Kohl, Tristan; Lake, James - 2019
tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected … role played by NAFTA tariff cuts reducing the impacts of frictions at various extensive margins. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997344
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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384728
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Economy wide impact of the trade integration between Japan and India : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227205
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Consequences of FTA withdrawal : evidence from "Uxit"
Gnutzmann, Hinnerk; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Korn, … - 2021
We use a unique case study to estimate the effect of withdrawing from a free trade agreement on international trade. Lately, the political opposition to international economic cooperation has been on the rise, but little is known about how the withdrawal from a trade agreement affects trade. We...
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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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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
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Understanding the latest wave and future shape of regional trade and cooperation agreements in Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003457169
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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment
Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011
This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...
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