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Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession : Which is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the Cis
Tumbarello, Patrizia - 2005
This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for some member countries of the Commonwealth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400926
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China : International Trade and WTO Accession
Blancher, Nicolas R. - 2004
China''s increasing integration with the global economy has contributed to sustained growth in international trade. Its exports have become more diversified, and greater penetration of industrial country markets has been accompanied by a surge in China''s imports from all regions-especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404079
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Trade Policy in Financial Services
McDonald, Bradley J. - 2000
This paper reviews the economics of trade policy in financial services, highlighting differences between trade across borders and through commercial presence. Trade liberalization could complement other financial reforms by enhancing the efficiency, quality, and variety of financial services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399959
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The GATS Agreementon Financial Services : A Modest Start to Multilateral Liberalization
Sorsa, Piritta - 1997
the General Agreements on Trade in Services (GATS). It provides an overview of the main features of the GATS and what the … participants in banking and securities within its framework, and compares GATS liberalization with the actual state of … emerging markets liberalized little under the GATS despite often well-developed financial markets, while the opposite was true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403355
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The WTO and the Poorest Countries : The Stark Reality
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2004
Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a significant say in WTO decision-making. However, they have limited ability to engage in the reciprocity game that is at the heart of the WTO, and have limited interests in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401438
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Investment Implications of Selected WTO Agreements and the Proposed Multilateral Agreementon Investment
Vocke, Matthias - 1997
The substantial increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years has triggered a discussion of a uniform treatment of investment in international law. Most contributions to the multilateral investment framework derive from the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements on trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399606
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Fiscal Implications of Multilateral Tariff Cuts
Sadikov, Azim M. - 2006
The paper contributes to the discussion about the revenue implications of trade reform by assessing the approximate fiscal revenue impact of different liberalization formulae under consideration in multilateral trade negotiations for a group of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402033
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Structural transformation and the sophistication of production
Anand, Rahul; Mishra, Saurabh; Spatafora, Nikola - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572510
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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom
Podpiera, Jiří - 2021
Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796259
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World trade in services : evidence from a new dataset
Loungani, Prakash; Mishra, Saurabh; Papageorgiou, Chris; … - 2017
Using a newly constructed dataset on trade in services for 192 countries from 1970 to 2014, this paper shows that services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade and an increasingly important component of global production. A detailed analysis of patterns and stylized facts reveals that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670531