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Deep Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains
Laget, Edith - 2018
, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment … under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912338
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Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade
Francois, Joseph F. - 2016
The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. They are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747825
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Horizontal Depth : A New Database on the Content of Preferential Trade Agreements
Hofmann, Claudia - 2017
1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade … World Trade Organization mandate and in four leading areas outside the current World Trade Organization mandate: competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962302
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936297
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Is the WTO Passe?
Bagwell, Kyle - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937212
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What Do We Know About Preferential Trade Agreements and Temporary Trade Barriers?
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
apply the World Trade Organization's global safeguards policy instrument. The four examples include recent policies applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973155
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Preferential Trade Agreements and Their Role in World Trade
Medvedev, Denis - 2016
comprehensive database of PTAs in force and a detailed matrix of world trade. He shows that total trade between PTA partners is a … to one-third of global trade in 2000-02, the latter was between one-sixth and one-tenth of world trade. His gravity model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747946
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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains : Theory, Evidence, and Open Questions
Ruta, Michele - 2017
Preferential trade agreements today are more numerous and deeper than they were a quarter century ago. Do deep agreements promote countries' integration into global value chains? What are the economic mechanisms? How do countries choose their trade agreement partners? Would the undoing of deep...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948008
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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations
Basu, Kaushik - 2017
The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969887
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Depreciations Without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2017
This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971261