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Deeper integration : what effects on trade?
Clever, Martin; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010
The focus of this paper is to estimate the effect of the different types of regional trade agreements on the volume of trade between country pairs. The analysis will employ the "empirical workhorse" of international trade; the gravity model. We hypothesize that the deeper agreements have a stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662908
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Services trade and policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2009
unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the …, focusing on contributions that investigate the determinants of international trade and investment in services, the potential … gains from greater trade (and liberalization) and efforts to cooperate to achieve such liberalization through trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009239689
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The value of bindings
Bacchetta, Marc; Piermartini, Roberta - 2011 - Manuscript date: 26 September 2011
One of the goals of the multilateral trading system is to enhance the stability and predictability of the environment in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have bound tariffs at ceiling levels often substantially above...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305703
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Quantitative evidence on transparency in regional trade agreements
Lejárraga, Iza; Shepherd, Ben - 2013
What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical evidence of the political economy determinants of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775462
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Multilateralising regionalism : strengthening transparency disciplines in trade
Lejárraga, Iza - 2013
Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775465
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462834
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462864
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Institutions for Regulatory Cooperation in 'New Generation' Economic and Trade Agreements
Steger, Debra P. - 2013
There is not one, perfect model for institutional regulatory cooperation, nor is there a single model for eliminating technical barriers to trade or discriminatory sanitary and phytosanitary measures in a preferential trade agreement (PTA). However, recent experience with PTAs has shown that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092258
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Regulatory Implications of Multilateral Trade Liberalisation for the Global Services Market : The Case of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)
Di Lieto, Giovanni - 2018
, consumption outputs, and capital attraction in a broader pool of service-oriented economies. Ultimately, this study argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906731
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Rules of origin across African regional trading agreements : a landscape with measures to address challenges at harmonization
Gourdon, Julien; Kniahin, Dzmitry; De Melo, Jaime; … - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 96-108
To become operational, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) must harmonize Rules of Origin (ROO) across Africa's Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) along two dimensions: regime-wide rules and product-specific rules. This paper describes and evaluates these ROO across the major...
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