Increasingly, in regional agreements, large economies, e.g. U.S. and E.U., offer lower trade barriers in exchange for … multilateral trade liberalization? We show that, even in the absence of trade creation or diversion, such preferential agreements …

This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization … analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR period and the years since independence revealed that unlike its close … trade. It is almost a good representation of reality to say that Belarus trades with Russia. The assessment of the rationale …

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … requirements that raise the problem of the concise interpretation of “substantially all the trade.” East Asian Financial Crisis of …

importance in trade talks, because of the large number of countries involved, the wider dispersion in initial tariffs (e ….g. tariff peaks) and gaps between bound and applied tariff rates. This paper resents a two country intra-industry trade model …

costs and trade policy cooperation. Tariffs have the effect of attracting foreign direct investment to the benefit of … costs facilitates free trade. This logic is applied to a three-country model to examine cross-sectional relationships. It is … found that if any country is too distant from the others, then global free trade is not attainable. Rather, if two of the …

This paper reviews the evolution of thinking about regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the policy developments … message of the theory of second-best about the ambiguity of outcomes remains valid. Describing many RTAs as free trade … agreements distorts the meaning of “free trade” and deeper integration in some regions undermines use of the nation state as the …

A key element of the EU’s free trade and preferential trade agreements is the extent to which they deliver improved … in Europe, including the countries of the Balkans. Previous preferential trade schemes have been ineffective in …’ agreement and free trade agreements with countries in the Balkans to generate substantial improvements in access to the EU …

This paper examines the welfare implications of trade reforms in the presence of a government budget constraint. There … is consensus about gains from opening up to trade. The less investigated question is, whether a coordinated tax reform … improving or not. Are trade taxes an expensive tool to raise the necessary revenue for governments? This paper uses a CGE model …