Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current … for Brazil to increase global value chain-related trade. One avenue to raise participation in global value chains is … through (deeper) preferential trade agreements, and to this end the paper characterizes the level of integration of Brazil …

This paper uses data on directional trade flows and Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) to i) estimate the effects of RTA … on trade flows and ii) assess the importance of Global Value Chains for these effects. Based on a Difference …-in- Difference identification strategy, we find that RTAs are associated with: (1) an increase in trade within the region, (2) a …

As preferential trade agreements are growing in number and depth, assessment of their economic impacts has become more … important to inform policy-makers facing a multitude of potential preferential trade agreements. This paper provides novel ex … ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest …

preferential trade agreements. The paper briefly reviews China's financial liberalization process and the state of its domestic … financial system, discusses the main considerations of including financial services in China's preferential trade agreements … is placed on lessons from Latin American preferential trade agreements, given their more frequent and extensive coverage …