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BIMSTEC, a regional grouping of South and Southeast Asian countries, is heading towards an FTA for greater economic integration. The present paper examines the ex ante effects of the iniative by adopting SMART and GTAP models. Based on estimated export supply elasticity, the results of SMART...
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. We focus on the European Union- the world largest preferences provider- and run two experiments of tariff cuts by the EU …
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. Based on the scenarios that the EU operates either as a monopoly or competes with the rest of the world within a duopoly …
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Quantification of welfare changes due to trade liberalisation play a crucial role for political decision making. However, meaningful comparisons of simulation results from different sources are difficult. Often significant differences in simulated gains from liberalisation do not serve to...
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This paper asks how NAFTA affected income distribution within Mexico considering changes in internalmigration. Trade liberalization should theoretically increase the income of low-skilled workers in low-skilled labor-abundantdeveloping countries. Thus, by increasing the wages of poorer workers,...
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The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade distorting policies and evaluates the effects of trade liberalization on peanut producers, shellers, manufactures, and U.S. consumers of peanut products. Decreasing marketing...
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The U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS), which involves mandates for variousbiofuels, is complex and has been often misinterpreted or oversimplified in previous studies.In this paper we analyze the implications of the RFS for the U.S. domestic and international ethanol markets. We...
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distortions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model calibrated on 2002 market data and … producers in both OECD countries (Australia) and non-OECD countries (Brazil, Cuba), and even some protected producers (Indonesia …, Turkey), expand production when all distortions are removed. Consumption distortions have marginal impacts on world markets …
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removal of trade distortions induces a 23.2 percent increase in the price of world ethanol on average between 2006 and 2015 … ethanol in gasoline consumption. U.S. net ethanol imports increase by 192.8 percent. Brazil responds to the higher world … to refiners blending ethanol induces a 22.5 percent increase in the world ethanol price. …
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by their market size, depress the world prices of groundnut products. Under free trade, African exporters present in … these world markets would gain because they are net sellers of groundnut products. In India, consumers would be better off …
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