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Does Regionalism Affect Trade Liberalization toward Non-Members?
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2012
This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied most-favored nation tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. The findings show that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector...
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The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements and Trade Facilitation in the Middle East North Africa Region
Dennis, Allen - 2012
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing. Efforts to boost trade through a plethora of regional trade agreements (RTAs) are underway. This study examines the potential contribution of regional trade agreements, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553661
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Market Presence, Contestability, and the Terms-of-Trade Effects of Regional Integration
Schiff, Maurice; Chang, Won - 2013
United States in Brazil's market when MERCOSUR trade liberalization and most-favored-nation (MFN) trade liberalization take … preferential trade liberalization. Argentina's presence in Brazil's market results in a smaller U.S. price response to Brazil's MFN … significant role when Argentina's is absent from Brazil's market, contestability lessens the U.S. response to changes in the MFN …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559507
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Integration of Markets vs. Integration by Agreements
Aminian, Nathalie; Fung, K.C.; Ng, Francis - 2012
This paper provides an analysis of the two channels of regional integration: integration via markets and integration via agreements. Given that East Asia and Latin America are two fertile regions where both forms of integrations have taken place, the authors examine the experiences of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552330
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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-parametric Approach
Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2012
Many recent papers have pointed to ambiguous trade effects of developing regional trade agreements (RTAs), calling for a reassessment of their economic merits. The author focuses on seven such agreements currently in force in Sub-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552668
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - 2015
This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. The paper uses variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564358
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Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows, and Wage Inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - 2012
wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552559
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Structural Change and Poverty Reduction in Brazil : The Impact of the Doha Round
Bussolo, Maurizio; Lay, Jann; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2012
connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553658
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Antidumping and Safeguard Mechanisms : The Brazilian Experience, 1988-2003
Kume, Honorio; Piani, Guida - 2012
The authors focus on the evaluation of the antidumping regime from 1988 through 2003. During these years the Brazilian economy had to cope with several periods of macroeconomic instability and overvaluation of the domestic currency, particularly from 1990-92 and 1994-98. As a result, from 1992...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554021
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Earnings Inequality Within and Across Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Groups in Four Latin American Countries
Cunningham, Wendy; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2012
former phenomenon. Using household survey data from four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, and Guyana …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552376