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In February 2016, twelve Pacific Rim countries signed the agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), one of the largest and most comprehensive trade deals in history. While there are several estimates of the likely effects of the TPP, there is no systematic study on the effects on all...
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The 21st century suggests a somewhat vexing scenario of ‘new protectionism', especially with the rise of protectionist …/ concealed) protectionism. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are found to be high users of standard-like NTMs … murky protectionism in the region. Grounded on a few criterion to establish potential protectionism, the paper forwards the …
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A deranged publisher decided to produce a volume of some of my papers and asked me to write some comments. Since these amount to a summary of my views about international trade theory over the latest forty years or so, I'm giving the comments a separate alternative existence as a discussion paper
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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade....
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Latin America is a fertile ground for exploring issues of trade and human rights, but relatively little seems to be written about human rights in economic integration processes across Latin America. This article is an attempt at remedying this. It is an exploratory piece that highlights some of...
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Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade....
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This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of countries (both developing and developed) and industries, during the period 1980-2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional...
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Local protectionism disrupts buyer-supplier chains, since it requests local firms to buy the outputs of other local …. I study how local protectionism shapes the spatial allocation of firms through disrupting production networks. Using a … spatial regression discontinuity design, I find that local protectionism causally affects firm entry and exit. Favoritism …
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