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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations

Dong, Yan - 2014

This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong amp; Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...

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The Possibilities for Global Poverty Reduction Using Revenues from Global Carbon Pricing

Davies, James B. - 2014

Global carbon pricing can yield revenues which are large enough to create significant global pro-poor redistributive opportunities. We analyze alternative multidecade growth trajectories for major global economies with carbon tax rates designed to stabilize emissions in the presence of both...

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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra; Whalley, John - 2021

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

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Trade and Environment : Bargaining Outcomes from Linked Negotiations

Abrego, Lisandro; Perroni, Carlo; Whalley, John; Wigle, … - 2022

Recent literature has explored both physical and policy linkage between trade and environment. Here we explore linkage through leverage in bargaining, whereby developed countries can use trade policy threats to achieve improved developing country environmental management, while developing...

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How Close is Asia to Already Being a Trade Bloc?

Li, Chunding - 2014

economic union. Unlike Europe with the EU and the 1997 treaty of Rome and the 1993 NAFTA in North American, Asian economic …

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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals

Li, Chunding - 2014

highest welfare outcome. For the US, China-TPP FTA will generate the highest welfare outcome. For the EU, all China involved …

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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent Ftas Involving ASEAN Countries

Dayaratna-Banda, O. G.; Whalley, John - 2021

We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...

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The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization of Service Networks

Bhattarai, Keshab; Whalley, John - 2022

This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms, compared to liberalization in goods. In the presence of network externalities, it argues that if two disjoint country service networks involving a small and large country are...

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Competitive Liberalization and a Us-Sacu FTA

Whalley, John; Leith, J. Clark - 2022

competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower … such an arrangement lies in improved access to a smaller but more protected market where the EU already has preferential … interest in weakening the trade restrictive effects of MFA quotas in the US for apparel imports. The risk of entrapment in …

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