America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of … strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue …

merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent … explicitly for whether the trade and investment effects are significantly different after PTA formation than before accounts for … investment responds in beachhead' fashion to the trade provisions of PTAs, the trade carried out from those beachheads could …

merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent … explicitly for whether the trade and investment effects are significantly different after PTA formation than before accounts for … investment responds in beachhead' fashion to the trade provisions of PTAs, the trade carried out from those beachheads could …

have fewer commitments in preferential trade agreements, with larger gaps in areas such as labor and the environment; and …This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on … the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives …

This study employs a structural gravity approach to analyse the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on …