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Normalizing India Pakistan trade
Taneja, Nisha; Mehra, Mishita; Mukherjee, Prithvijit; … - 2013
With the trade normalization process between India and Pakistan gathering momentum since November 2011, new opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade have opened between the two countries. This study estimates the trade potential between India and Pakistan, and examines how this potential can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208653
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Driving Economic Growth : How Bangladesh Can Leverage the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
Laboni, Israt Jahan; Khatun, Mst. Feroza; Chowdhury, … - 2023
procedures, lower trade costs and increase transparency and predictability in global trade. For Bangladesh, a highly export … Agreement, Bangladesh can improve its trade competitiveness, reduce the time and costs associated with exporting and importing … developing countries such as Bangladesh. This article provides a detailed overview of TFA and its potential benefits for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344479
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From trade preferences to trade facilitation : taking stock of the issues
Persson, Maria - 2011
The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229144
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Dimensionen und Auswirkungen eines Freihandelsabkommens zwischen der EU und den USA : Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi)
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Krüger, Finn; … - 2013 - Januar 2013
Das ifo Institut hat im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie die vorliegende Evaluierungsstudie zu den Dimensionen und Auswirkungen eines Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA durchgeführt. Die Studie zeigt, dass ein tiefgreifendes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511685
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The choice of modeling firm heterogeneity and trade restrictions
Cole, Matthew T. - 2009
There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. However, these models tend to rely heavily on symmetry assumptions and assume melting iceberg transport costs as the only form of trade restrictions. Moreover, a standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724992
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Bilateral India-Pakistan agricultural trade : trends, composition and opportunities
Chand, Ramesh; Saxena, Raka - 2014
SAFTA. The study also analyses the comparative advantage and complementarities in agricultural trade between the two … started expanding in the new century and picked up momentum after SAFTA came into effect in 2006. Since then, agricultural … despite implementation of SAFTA, existence of tariff and non-tariff barriers continue to restrict agricultural trade between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412153
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From Trade Preferences to Trade Facilitation : Taking Stock of the Issues
Persson, Maria - 2013
The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091949
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Sensitive Sectors in Free Trade Agreements
Deardorff, Alan V. - 2019
This paper documents the presence of "sensitive sectors" in Free Trade Agreements, defined as sectors for which the within-FTA tariffs remain positive. The paper includes some brief theoretical discussion of the welfare implications of these, but the main emphasis is on reporting two measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895809
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Preferential Trade Liberalization with Endogenous Cartel Discipline : Implications for Welfare and Optimal Trade Policies
Agnosteva, Delina - 2020
We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by the cartel's incentive compatibility constraint (ICC),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822505
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Putting Canada in the Penalty Box : Trade and Welfare Effects of Eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L. - 2019
Three years ago, very few economists would have imagined that one of the newest and fastest growing research areas in international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major countries' economic integration agreements (EIAs)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866366