In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could have been a factor behind the emergence of greater inequalities in …

-Wan theorem on trade agreements. It would warrant, for example, a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with incomplete ASEAN …

trade agreements. If all countries considered abandoning existing preferential market access to services, this would reduce …

-US free trade and investment agreement, although not likely to be concluded soon, would address this gap and offers a range of …

all endogenously determined and respond to trade integration in a way that is consistent with empirical evidence. Using … Canada-US regional data, we structurally estimate the model and simulate the impacts of removing all trade barriers generated …

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and … endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favours wage convergence, boosts competition, and forces the least efficient firms … model is well suited to studying the impact of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using Canada …

This paper deals with the trade and welfare effects of a potential bilateral trade agreement between the US and Japan …) I analyse the welfare gains of such a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in the style of Aichele et al. (2014). In … shallow FTA, and a deep FTA. In addition, the paper compares the trade and welfare changes of a deep FTA to the welfare …

prominent providers of trade distorting support to agriculture sector. USA is giving huge support to farmers under various …