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Deep trade agreements and global value chains

Laget, Edith; Osnago, Alberto; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2018

, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment … under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade …

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The heterogeneous effects of trade policy uncertainty : how much do trade commitments boost trade?

Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2018

current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …

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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details

Osnago, Alberto - 2015

Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...

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Disaggregating the Impact of the Internet on International Trade

Osnago, Alberto - 2016

The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when...

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Is the WTO Passï¿½?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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Horizontal Depth : A New Database on the Content of Preferential Trade Agreements

Hofmann, Claudia - 2017

1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade … World Trade Organization mandate and in four leading areas outside the current World Trade Organization mandate: competition …

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What's Left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2015

Suppose that when addressing the question of "what's left for the WTO?," tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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China's Export Growth and the China Safeguard : Threats to the World Trading System?

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith - 2010

negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World … explanations for these puzzling results as well as potential implications for the sustainability of the rules of the world trading …

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