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The well-known question whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the multilateral trading system (MTS) are strangers, friends, or foes (Bhagwati and Panagariya, 1996) has gained new importance with the widespread proliferation of RTAs in recent years. Based on an extensive data set which...
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optimal level of integration are examined. Multilateralism and regionalism are concluded to be complements. …
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This paper argues that different types of trade liberalization { multilateral versus regional { may lead to different R&D and productivity levels of firms. Trade agreements between countries are modelled with a network: nodes represent countries and a link between the nodes indicates the...
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regionalism while the WTO was otherwise occupied, and 3) 21st century regionalism has quite different implications for the world …-stumbling-block and Vinerian economics) is not up to the job of analysing 21st century regionalism. An alternative framework is not …
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multilateralism and regionalism in Brazilian foreign policy is analyzed in order to identify and understand Brazil's trade negotiation … multilateral approach with a two-speed regionalism. …
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liberalism, may in fact be a direct consequence of the success of past multilateralism and an added guarantee for its survival. …
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-Mediterranean relations, an element of novelty in the form of the regionalism it promoted and the multilateral setting it was creating … region-building multilateralism of the EMP has been side-lined by the pragmatic bilateralism of the UfM. …
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The well-known question whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the multilateral trading system (MTS) are strangers, friends, or foes (Bhagwati and Panagariya, 1996) has gained new importance with the widespread proliferation of RTAs in recent years. Based on an extensive data set which...
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success of past multilateralism and an added guarantee for its survival. …
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Previous studies on the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia have assumed full utilization of preferences. The evidence suggests that this assumption is seriously in error, with the estimated uptake particularly low in East Asia. In this paper, we assume a more realistic...
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