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Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multicountry, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and … trade, value added, and welfare effects of the TTIP, assuming that the agreement would eliminate all transatlantic tariffs … effects of the TTIP on outsiders and the global economy. …
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and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and … flow elasticities of trade costs and of existing PTAs. We simulate the trade, value added, and welfare effects of the TTIP …
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This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of …-state dispute settlement and argue that the TTIP will have discriminatory effects on at least some third countries. However …, regulatory councils are important ingredients of the deal as they guarantee that the TTIP will indeed influence the setting of …
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Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all signed RTAs are "natural" according to economic determinants. En-dogeneity and general equilibrium effects of RTAS are the two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate...
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Fragmentation of the global value chain makes it difficult to assess the effects of trade liberalization on the global pattern of production. Gross bilateral trade ows no longer reveal a country's or a sector's value added contribution. Yet, it is value added that matters for employment and...
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Global imports subject to pre-shipment inspections (PSI) - a practice under which imports need to undergo a third party review process before shipment - shrank from 700 bn USD in 2010 to 87 bn in 2018. However, only little is known about the trade impact of such procedures, which on the one hand...
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We employ theory-grounded sectoral gravity models to estimate the effects of various steps of European product market integration on trade flows. We embed these estimates into a static Ricardian quantitative trade model featuring 43 countries and 50 goods and services sectors. Paying attention...
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The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has been predicted to bring about an expansion in trade flows and real income gains. To date, there is still very limited empirical evidence on the actual post-implementation impact of the TFA. This paper provides an assessment, combining econometric...
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In the 2000s, China's WTO entry constituted a major trade shock. In this paper, we analyze its eff ects on trade and value chains. The fragmentation of the global value chain makes it hard to disentangle who produces for whom. Value added trade contains this information. We build a multi-sector...
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