In 2015, the African Union launched negotiations to establish African Free Trade Agreement named AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area). In this study, we pointed out the importance of the services sector in intra-African trade. It examines the effects of AfCFTA on intra-African trade in...

This paper examines the effects of African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on intra-African trade in the medium- and long-term, focusing on trade in services. It assesses the impacts of a 50\% reduction of non-tariff barriers in four services sectors on bilateral trade in services...

We estimate the impact of the 2012 removal of the Canadian Wheat Board's (CWB) single-desk on the spatial pattern of durum wheat acres in Western Canada. We analyze changes in durum seeded acres with a panel regression and Census Agricultural Region data from 2004-2016. Our results indicate that...

This paper shows that greater global spatial correlation of productivities can increase cross-country welfare dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this general-equilibrium prediction using a global climatic...

This chapter provides an overview of the first two decades of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) an effort to support a standardized database and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling platform for international economic analysis. It characterizes GTAP in four different dimensions:...

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...

The commodity prices have boosted in the last years and many possible causes have been mentioned (dollar weakness, China's economic growth, oil prices, speculative bubble, agriculture productivity declining). Despite the recent crisis, some developing countries have presented a good performance...

The present study attempts to analyze the price formation mechanism in the world soybean oil market in a competitive framework. The determinants of world soybean oil price are identified by estimating the equations for exports/imports and the border prices of the major exporting and importing...

Hunger, Kriege, Erderwärmung - eng miteinander verknüpfte Zustände und Risiken - sinddie Geißeln der Menschheit, besonders in den davon stark betroffenen Regionen im GlobalenSüden. Daher verbrieft die Weltgemeinschaft in den Entwicklungszielen der VereintenNationen (Sustainable Development...

PTAs are generally negotiated without any tariff concessions or transfers to non-member countries. Can such a PTA benefit the neighbors’ welfare? In a two-good competitive equilibrium model in the absence of an entrepôt, a PTA without concessions to the outside will hurt the outsider’s...