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Limão, Nuno - 2016

A large and growing number of countries participate in multiple preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which increasingly entail broad cooperation over policies extending far beyond trade barriers. I review the traditional and non-traditional motives for PTAs and their empirical determinants as...

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Is the WTO passé?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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Reciprocity, Non-discrimination and Preferential Agreements in the Multilateral Trading System

Bagwell, Kyle - 1997

GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …

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The Purpose of Trade Agreements

Grossman, Gene M. - 2016

This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral...

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Preferential Trade Agreements and the World Trade System : A Multilateralist View

Krishna, Pravin - 2012

preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and their place in the world trade system. Taking a multilateralist perspective, it makes …

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Multiple Time-Serie3 Models Applied to Panel Data

MaCurdy, Thomas E. - 1981

This study presents a general methodology for fitting multiple time series models to panel data. The basic statistical … panel data, and it identifies those instances in which procedures found in the time series literature cannot be directly … applied to analyze longitudinal data. Data analysis techniques in the tine series literature are adapted for panel data …

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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...

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The Trade and Investment Effects of Preferential Trading Arrangements

Dee, Philippa - 2003

This study quantifies the impact of traditional and new age' provisions of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) on merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent and some past PTAs are not as benign as some...

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Returns to Regionalism : An Evaluation of Non-Traditional Gains from RTAs

Fernandez, Raquel - 1997

The last decade has witnessed an explosion in the number of regional trade agreements (RTAs). There seems to be a general if ill-defined belief on the part of many policy-makers, and among a number of academics as well, that there is more to a RTA than the traditional gains from trade. This...

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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

Eichengreen, Barry - 1996

This paper investigates the theory and evidence that history plays a role in shaping the direction of international …

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