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North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade

Disdier, Anne-Célia - 2017

Recent years have seen a surge in economic integration agreements (EIAs) and the development of non-tariff measures (NTMs). As a consequence, a growing number of EIAs include provisions on NTMs. However, little attention has been given in the literature to the effects of NTM liberalization in...

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Third-Country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements : A Firm-Level Analysis

Lee, Woori - 2019

Do regional trade agreements negatively impact non-members? This paper revisits this long-standing trade policy question using firm-level data and detailed information on the content of trade agreements. Differently from the conventional view on trade diversion, the analysis identifies a...

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Regional Trade Agreements

Freund, Caroline L. - 2017

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on regionalism. The formation of regional trade agreements has been, by far, the most popular form of reciprocal trade liberalization in the past 15 years. The discriminatory character of these agreements has raised three main concerns:...

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China and the World Trading System

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2017

The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually … mechanism that has driven the World Trade Organization process to previous successes. The second is new restraints on …

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Are All Trade Agreements Equal? The Role of Distance in Shaping the Effect of Economic Integration Agreements on Trade Flows

Freeman, Rebecca - 2017

How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 countries over the period 1965-2010. Three stylized facts emerge. First, although...

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Services Liberalization and GVC Participation : New Evidence for Heterogeneous Effects by Income Level and Provisions

Lee, Woori - 2018

Participation in global value chains is a key element in the industrialization strategies of many developing nations. This paper investigates the role of services liberalization in promoting participation in global value chains. Using the gravity framework, it examines the impact of services...

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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-Parametric Approach

Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2016

successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade … diversion), but its impact on their exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During its first 10 years of existence …, ECOWAS appears to have had a positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade diversion …

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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements

Manchin, Miriam - 2016

The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might possibly generate some trade-chilling effects. They review characteristics of existing preferential trade agreements with special emphasis on lessons from the European...

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Do Regional Trade Pacts Benefit the Poor? An Illustration from the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement in Nicaragua

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2016

The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of the Central American Free Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. The authors use a general equilibrium macro model to simulate trade reform scenarios and estimate their price...

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Trade Effects of the New Silk Road : A Gravity Analysis

Baniya, Suprabha - 2019

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...

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