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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: 29 October 2014

measures', we find evidence of a substitution of non-tariff measures for tariffs both in the sample of TBT and in the sample of …

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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 31 October 2014

Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...

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R&D in the network of international trade : multilateral versus regional trade agreements

Teteryatnikova, Mariya - 2008

This paper argues that different types of trade liberalization { multilateral versus regional { may lead to different R&D and productivity levels of firms. Trade agreements between countries are modelled with a network: nodes represent countries and a link between the nodes indicates the...

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Services liberalization from a WTO/GATS perspective : in search of volunteers

Adlung, Rudolf - 2009

Most existing commitments are confined to guaranteeing the levels of access that existed in the mid-1990s, when the Agreement entered into force, in a limited number of sectors. The only significant exceptions are the accession schedules of recent WTO Members and the negotiating results in two...

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The contribution of services liberalization to poverty reduction : what role for the GATS?

Adlung, Rudolf (contributor) - 2007

There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) services, income transfers generated by workers moving abroad, or the mobilization of private...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497736

Liberalizing financial services trade in Africa : going regional and multilateral

Jansen, Marion (contributor); Vennes, Yannick (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyses the possible gains from regional and multilateral liberalization of financial services trade for African countries taking into account the implications of such liberalization for financial regulation and capital account liberalization. It also describes existing efforts to...

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Costa Rica : trade opening, FDI attraction and global production sharing

Monge Ariño, Francisco - 2011 - Manuscript date: January 2011

Costa Rica has managed to combine an active agenda in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTNs) at the WTO with the negotiation of several Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Such PTAs, most notably those with the US, China and the EU, will boost the share of total exports benefiting from...

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SMEs in services trade : a GATS perspective

Adlung, Rudolf; Soprana, Marta - 2012 - Manuscript date: 27 April 2012

Issues related to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have been raised at earlier stages of the Doha Round in various negotiating contexts and, more recently, at meetings of the Council for Trade in Services. It is difficult, however, to find a common denominator as to...

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Evolution of Asia's outward-looking economic policies : some lessons from trade policy reviews

Daly, Michael John - 2011 - Manuscript date: 17 August 2011

This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency of these policies. It also draws some...

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The value of bindings

Bacchetta, Marc; Piermartini, Roberta - 2011 - Manuscript date: 26 September 2011

that countries do vary tariffs. Most importantly, we find evidence that applied tariffs of tariff lines that are bound are … the level of the water (i.e. the gap between bound and applied tariff). This finding is robust to controlling for … political economy determinants of tariffs and to factors related to the economic cycle. -- water in the tariff ; weak …

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