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Analyzing Potential Effects of Preferential Liberalization in Some Asian Emerging Economies
School of Economics and Finance
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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Preferential Tariffs, WTO and Developing Countries: Do the Gains from Multilateral Market Access Outweigh Preferential Access?
Elbehri, Aziz; Wainio, John - 2006
WTO trade negotiations on market access follow the MFN treatment. However, an increasing share of trade falls under preferential regimes. For agriculture, trade liberalization analyses have showed that the impact on developing countries (DC) is not uniform, partly from omitting preferences. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442468
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Enlargement of Trade Blocs: National Welfare Effects If Trade Is Liberalized
Glebe, Thilo W.; Salhofer, Klaus - 2006
Small countries may benefit from the formation of a trade bloc, since their combined market power will enable them to manipulate the terms of trade. The question of interest is whether countries will benefit from the enlargement of a trading bloc, if trade liberalization induces countries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442496
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Meta-Analysis of General and Partial Equilibrium Simulations of Doha Round Outcomes
Hess, Sebastian; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442503
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Effect of NAFTA on Mexico's Income Distribution in the Presence of Migration
Garduno-Rivera, Rafael - 2010
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442630
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International Trade Liberalization Impact on the U.S. Peanut Industry
Carley, Dale H.; Fletcher, Stanley M. - 1993
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442637
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The Implications of Alternative U.S. Domestic and Trade Policies for Biofuels
Yano, Yuki; Blandford, David; Surry, Yves R. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442683
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Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets (Revised)
Elobeid, Amani E.; Beghin, John C. - 2005
We analyze the impact of trade liberalization, removal of production subsidies, and elimination of consumption distortions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model calibrated on 2002 market data and current policies. The removal of trade distortions alone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443055
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Removal of U.S. Ethanol Domestic and Trade Distortions: Impact on U.S. and Brazilian Ethanol Markets
Elobeid, Amani E.; Tokgoz, Simla - 2006
Replaced with revised version of paper 12/06/06.
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GROUNDNUT TRADE LIBERALIZATION: A SOUTH-SOUTH DEBATE?
Beghin, John C.; Diop, Ndiame; Matthey, Holger; … - 2003
lesser extent, China to smaller developing countries mainly located in Africa. In the former, current policies, exacerbated … cost of the adjustment would fall on Indian farmers and crushers. In China, crush margins would improve because of the … large terms-of-trade effects in the oil market relative to the seed market. China’'s groundnut product exports would expand …
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