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The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement : Impact on Trade Flows and External Trade Barriers

Calvo Pardo, Hector F. - 2014

Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, the authors examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has affected trade with nonmembers and external tariffs facing nonmembers. First, the paper examines the effect of preferential and external tariff reduction on import growth from...

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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union

Zouhonbi, Simplice G - 2020

This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...

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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...

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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements : The Case of Indonesia

Cali, Massimiliano - 2019

ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest … Indonesia may negotiate in the future. To that end it, combines a dynamic, multi-country computable general equilibrium model … the preferential trade agreements considered, the European Union?Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement …

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Do Crises Catalyze Creative Destruction? Firm-Level Evidence from Indonesia

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017

Using Indonesian manufacturing census data (1991-2001), this paper rejects the hypothesis that the East Asian crisis unequivocally improved the reallocative process. The correlation between productivity and employment growth did not strengthen and the crisis induced the exit of relatively...

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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Haddad, Mona - 2017

European Union, Indonesia, and the United States. When the authors aggregate across all products, most of the countries …

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The Evolution of Services Trade Policy Since the Great Recession

Borchert, Ingo - 2020

Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, this paper draws on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad...

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Is Protectionism on the Rise? Assessing National Trade Policies During the Crisis of 2008

Kee, Hiau Looi - 2017

To understand the role of trade policies in the crisis of 2008, this paper constructs the overall trade restrictiveness indices for a wide range of countries using their tariff schedules in 2008 and 2009. The index summarizes the trade policy stance of a country, taking into account the share of...

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Market Structure and Market Access

Francois, Joseph F. - 2016

We examine the interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 OECD countries vis-agrave;-vis 69 exporters....

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Regionalism and Trade Facilitation : A Primer

Maur, Jean-Christophe - 2008

This paper investigates when trade facilitation reform should be undertaken at the regional level. First, looking at both efficiency and implementation considerations, it confirms the perception that the regional dimension matters. Investigating where efficiency gains can be made, this research...

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