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Bilateral Investment Treaty and Free Trade Agreement : The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the United States
Nawafleh, Abdullah - 2011
Comments on key rules and principles of: (1) the Jordan-United States Bilateral Investment Treaty 1997, including those concerning most favoured nation treatment, free transfer of profits, the settlement of disputes, and qualifying industrial zones; and (2) the Jordan-United States Free Trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184646
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Fairness in international trade policy : equality and differential treatment in theory and practice : (working paper)
Häußermann, Johann Jakob - 2017
In "Fairness in Practice - A Social Contract for a Global Economy" (2012) Aaron James proposes a substantial normative framework for a theory of fairness in the global economy. Based on a distinctive methodology of interpretive constructivism, James argues for an internal justification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763094
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The effect of trade liberalization on manufacturing price cost margins : the case of Mexico, 1994-2003
López Noria, Gabriela - 2013
reductions under NAFTA, the results show that PCMs immediately decreased once the second round of trade liberalization in Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786979
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I've been everywhere (except Mexico) : investor responses to NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions
Davies, Ronald B.; Liebman, Benjamin H.; Tomlin, Kasaundra - 2015
We investigate the response of US trucking firms to the removal of barriers to crossborder trucking under NAFTA. This was done via a program implemented in 2007, cancelled in 2009, and reinstated in 2011. We find that, unsurprisingly, the program's start resulted in lower stock returns,...
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The Economics of Revoking NAFTA
Auer, Raphael - 2018
Canada, US$ 22 billion in Mexico, and US$ 40 billion in the United States. In contrast, annual combined losses would amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911912
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The USMCA and Mexico’s Prospects under the New North American Trade Regime
Ciuriak, Dan; Fay, Robert - 2021
After 26 years of trading under the North American Free Trade agreement (NAFTA), Mexico and its North American partners … enter a new phase with the entry into force of United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on 1 July 2020. This note … quantifies the potential impact of the agreement on Mexico and assesses its implications for Mexico’s economic development in the …
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The impact of trade liberalization on the Mexican automobile industry: evidence from the first 20 years of NAFTA
López Noria, Gabriela - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization under NAFTA on the productivity of the Mexican automobile industry. Using a panel of establishments for the period 1994-2014, in a first stage a Cobb-Douglas production function is estimated by the Levinsohn and Petrin's (2003) method (in an...
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Quantifying CUSMA : The Economic Consequences of the New North American Trade Regime
Ciuriak, Dan - 2020
The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), as amended by the Protocol of Amendment signed December 10, 2019 … threshold for tax and duty-free entry into Canada and Mexico of low-value goods imports; and easing some barriers to services … GDP and welfare for all three parties, with Mexico being hardest hit and the United States the least. Canada's real GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848468
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Was NAFTA Behind the Mexican Export Boom (1994-2000)?
Garces-Diaz, Daniel G. - 2001
grew three times faster (15%) than in the previous six years. This remarkable showing has encouraged Mexico and other … abandonment of an erratic trade policy in favor of the opening up of the economy following the adherence of Mexico to the GATT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135234
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Preferential Trade Liberalization and the Path-Dependent Expansion of Exports
Borchert, Ingo - 2007
In the presence of sunk costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization may have a prolonged, dynamic effect on the pattern of a beneficiary country's exports. In particular, preferential tariff liberalization might trigger a geographic spread of exports to third markets outside the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052025