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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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Distance, formal and informal institutions in international trade
Lanz, Rainer; Lee, Woori; Stolzenburg, Victor - 2019 - Manuscript date: 24 January 2019
This paper brings together three strands of literature on the determinants of international trade − distance, formal … model, we find that the importance of formal institutions (rule of law) for bilateral trade increases with distance … substitution effect does not decrease with distance. Our findings contribute to explaining the persistent negative effect of …
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Antidumping regional regimes and the multilateral trading system : do regional antidumping regimes make a difference?
Rey, Jean-Daniel - 2012 - Manuscript date: October 2012
As of November 2010, more than 300 regional trade agreements (RTAs) were in force. Approximately two-thirds of them had been notified to the WTO. Each of these RTAs had, implicitly or explicitly, established a regional legal framework for the application of intra-regional, and sometimes...
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Market access provisions on trade in goods in regional trade agreements
Crawford, Jo-Ann - 2012 - Manuscript date: October 2012
This paper assembles detailed information on the market access provisions in trade in goods contained in 192 active regional trade agreements (RTAs) notified to the WTO as of November 2010. Although market access provisions in trade in goods in RTAs have been addressed in a number of studies,...
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Services rules in regional trade agreements : how diverse and how creative as compared to the GATS multilateral rules?
Latrille, Pierre; Lee, Juneyoung - 2012 - Manuscript date: October 2012
The study tries first to assess the extent of similarities and divergences among services rules in regional trade agreements as compared to the GATS. To do so, it uses a typology identifying variations in 48 key provisions structured under seven themes commonly found in RTAs and using the GATS...
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Has the multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free market access provided a breakthrough in the Least developed countries' export performance?
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm; Priyadarshi, Shishir - 2016 - Manuscript date: July 2016
This paper assesses the impact of the 2005 multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free (DFQF) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis is conducted over a sample of 41 LDCs, with data...
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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
We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of...
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Deep integration and production networks : an empirical analysis
Orefice, Gianluca; Rocha, Nadia - 2011 - Manuscript date: July 2011
In this paper, the two way relationship between deep integration and production networks trade is investigated. Deep integration is captured by a set of indices constructed in terms of policy areas covered in preferential trade agreements. An augmented gravity equation is estimated to...
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New evidence on preference utilization
Keck, Alexander; Lendle, Andreas - 2012 - Manuscript date: 16 August 2012
We analyse the degree of preference utilization in four major importing countries (Australia, Canada, EU and US) and provide evidence that preferences are more widely used than previously thought. For Australia and Canada, we have obtained a new dataset on imports by preferential regime that has...
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