Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frederic - 2008
In this paper we investigate whether multilateral trade liberalisation undermines or encourages preferential trade … liberalisation. We use highly disaggregated data at the tariff-line level and find an 'emulator effect' of multilateral trade … liberalisation on preferential trade agreements. Indeed, our regression results show that products for which the U.S. agreed to cut …