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Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462571
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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995
This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473546
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Protection Reduction and Diversion : PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes
Prusa, Thomas J. - 2010
We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings. We estimate AD provisions in PTAs have decreased the incidence of intra-PTA AD cases by 33-55% and have increased the number of AD actions against non-PTA members by 10-30%. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462381
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Global Service Efficiency and the Role of Special and Differential Based Negotiation
Yao, Daqing - 2016
much lower than agriculture and industry. Despite the progress in world commodity market integration in past half century …, the world service market remains highly segmented, which can be seen clearly from the World Bank's STRD index and CHB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456314
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Pollution and International Trade in Services
Levinson, Arik - 2009
Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is small, for two reasons. First, services account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463712
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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services
Li, Chunding - 2010
(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods … trade reflecting GATT (1994) are restricted to trade that crosses borders. Service trade, however, under GATS mode 3 … statistical bases for measures. One of them is the present mixed GATT and GATS basis; another is trade including foreign affiliate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462384
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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan - 2008
, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216
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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
Antràs, Pol - 2008
perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464361
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A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century
Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I explore whether the world trading system of the twentieth century can be adapted to address the challenges of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585431
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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni - 2009
We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463189