Trade is an important component of the Philippine economy. Contemporary trade is shaped primarily by the evolution of … Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The impact of FTAs has long been studied in the Philippines, but the network effects of FTA … trade shocks and its resulting impact to industry firm performance have not been explored as much. This study contributes to …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

of protection, whether through an unilateral tariff reduction or through the negotiation of trade agreements with … information from different databases concerning trade agreements signed by a huge number of countries in the last decades; and … tariffs doesn't seem to be a precondition for the negotiation and signing of trade agreements and that unilateral tariff …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of … unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the …

International trade ows reveal strong persistence over time. This paper is concerned with the role of trade agreements … in this persistent environment. The data reveal a high level of heterogeneity of the trade- creating effect along the … trade volume and per-capita income distributions. If controlled for persistence in bilateral trade ows, I find that higher …

In this paper, we examine possible medium-term changes in EU trade policy, including the negotiation and implementation … of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with regional entities like ASEAN and the NAFTA countries. We also examine the possible … conclusion of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Such changes in policy at the regional and global level imply …

-making on international trade, which may be particularly harmful to Brazil, outside not only of TPP but of all mega …