The aim of this article is to assess of the impact of the European Union’s trade preferences on global trade, focusing on several methodological issues that are relevant to these preferences’ trade creating impact. Using highly disaggregated digit data in a theoretically grounded gravity...

The aim of this article is to assess the impact of the European Union's trade preferences on global trade, focusing on several methodological issues that are relevant to these preferences' trade-creating impact. Using highly disaggregated eight-digit data in a theoretically grounded gravity...

Trade preferences have been used by the European Union and most developing countries can export with preferential market access under different schemes. We study the trade impact of these policies using highly disaggregated 8-digit data in a theoretically grounded gravity model framework. We...

The aim of this paper is to assess of the impact of the European Union's trade preferences on global trade, focusing on several methodological issues that are relevant to the trade-creating impact of these preferences. Using highly disaggregated eight-digit data in a theoretically grounded...

This work provides a revised method of aggregation of tariff line data that is consistent with a common objective of the preferential policies. Using constant-elasticity-of-substitution aggregators we compute the uniform preferential tariff reduction that would leave the volume of imports...