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The determinants of product-specific rules of origin : an econometric analysis in the regional comprehensive economic partnership
Crivelli, Pramila; Inama, Stefano; Marand, Jeremy - 2024
Rules of origin differ among overlapping free trade agreements, raising firm compliance costs, discouraging utilization of trade preferences, and hindering regional value chains. Using a unique dataset comparing the restrictiveness of product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) between the Regional...
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Should TPP be formed? : on the potential economic, governance, and conflict-reducing impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 3, pp. 279-309
welfare estimates that treat all firms within an industry as homogeneous with more recent CGE analyses that allow firms …
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Economy-wide impact of TPP : new challenges to China
Sikdar, Chandrima; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 6 (2017) 22, pp. 1-29
suffer. More than the loss in trade, China will experience substantial welfare loss due to all of allocative inefficiency …, worsening terms of trade and endowment effect. Of these, worsening terms of trade explain the largest part of welfare loss to … the country. With the withdrawal of the USA from the deal, China’s trade with the region and its welfare is likely to …
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The impact of the TPP on selected ASEAN economie
Dasgupta, Paramita; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 6 (2017) 26, pp. 1-34
would affect the overall growth and welfare of each of the TPP-ASEAN countries. For this purpose, the study separately … input-augmenting technological change. Results of the study show that all of the TPP-ASEAN members enjoy a welfare gain and …
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Outward FDI from a Free Trade Area : The Small Open Economy Case
WANG, Yu-Ter - 2009
In a simple three-country model where two countries sign a free trade agreement eliminating restrictions on trade and investment between them, this paper shows that any benefits accruing to the investing country from engaging in outward FDI will depend on the difference between the net return...
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Is FTA/EPA effective for a developing country to attract FDI? : simulation analysis based on an extended knowledge-capital model
Oyamada, Kazuhiko; Uchida, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
of improving welfare through increased demand for skilled and unskilled labor becomes higher as the size of the country … skilled labor, is better off avoiding the additional option; (3) If a country hopes to enjoy larger welfare gains with EPA …
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An Econometric Analysis of India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement
Joshi, Vivek - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2010
This paper investigates whether the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISLFTA) has had trade creation or trade diversion effects on the rest of the World. The method used resembles the one used by Romalis (2005) to study NAFTA. In order to use the variations in tariff at the product level, we...
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How serious is the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 27 (2013) C, pp. 81-94
This paper presents a constructed dataset of worldwide bilateral tariff rates to explore the seriousness of omitting bilateral tariff rates from gravity equations. Results indicate, first, that omitting bilateral tariff rates presents no serious issue related to the omitted variable bias because...
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FTA utilization : certificate of origin data versus customs data
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper empirically examines what kinds of elements affect the gap in free trade agreement (FTA) utilization with regard to customs data and certificates of origin (CoOs) data. We focus on Thai exports to Korea under the ASEAN-Korea FTA in 2011. As a result, we found that the products with...
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FTA in international finance : impacts of exchange rates on FTA utilization
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Yoshimi, Taiyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper investigates how exchange rates affect the utilization of a free trade agreement (FTA) scheme in trading. Changes in exchange rates affect FTA utilization by two ways. The first way is by changing the excess profits gained by utilizing the FTA scheme, and the second way is by...
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