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Preferential Trade Liberalisation, Fiscal Policy Responses and Welfare: A Dynamic CGE Model for Jordan
Feraboli, Omar - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 4, pp. 335-357
Jordan and the European Union (EU). Particular emphasis is placed on the effects on consumer welfare. The EU-Jordan AA was … Jordan from the EU. Custom duties on agricultural goods and processed agricultural products are gradually and only partially … calibrated. Simulation results show that the implementation of the AA raises consumer welfare in Jordan and has positive effects …
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Agricultural development in the age of trade liberalisation: what did we really get? A case study of Jordan
Akayleh, Fayq Al - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 5 (2013) 3, pp. 286-301
This paper analyses trade liberalisation policies and the impact of economic openness on agricultural development in a small, open economy. The paper reports on the effect of these policies on the following economic variables: 1) agricultural production; 2) income from agriculture; 3) domestic...
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Impact of trade openness on economic growth in a small, open, and developing economy: new instrumental variables for trade openness
Akayleh, Fayq Al - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 2, pp. 142-170
openness on economic growth? Taking Jordan as the case study, the main results of this paper are: 1) introducing reliable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760029
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Preferential Trade Liberalisation, Fiscal Policy Responses and Welfare: A Dynamic CGE Model for Jordan
Feraboli, Omar - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 227 (2007) 4, pp. 335-357
This paper aims at assessing the effects on the Jordanian economy of the Association Agreement (AA) between Jordan and … the European Union (EU). Particular emphasis is placed on the effects on consumer welfare. The EU-Jordan AA was signed in … 1997 and entered into force in May 2002. It eliminates progressively tariffs on most industrial goods imported by Jordan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790551
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Globalisation and market structure
Neary, J. Peter - 2002
This paper reviews some puzzling economic aspects of globalisation and argues that they cannot be satisfactorily addressed in perfectly or monopolistically competitive models. Drawing on recent work, a model of oligopoly in general equilibrium is sketched. The model ensures theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293764
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Simultaneous reform on tariffs and quotas
Neary, James Peter - 2005
This paper presents a general result for simultaneous reform of tariffs and quotas in a small open economy, where some of the quota rents do not accrue to domestic residents. Absent highly perverse income effects, welfare must rise following a uniform proportionate reduction in tariffs and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293842
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Industrial specialisation, trade, and labour market dynamics in a multisectoral model of technological progress
Stehrer, Robert - 2001
The issue of the impact of trade on specialisation structures and the effects of trade liberalisation on employment and labour markets has been intensively discussed in the recent literature on trade liberalisation and globalisation. In Europe this debate has gained new momentum in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294509
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Quantitative analysis of the impacts of Croatia's agricultural trade policy on the agri-food sector
Weingarten, Peter; Frohberg, Klaus; Winter, Etti; … - 2003
Croatia recently signed several trade liberalisation agreements. The cornerstones of its trade policy are WTO membership, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and Croatia's application of membership as well as bilateral free trade agreements within the Stability Pact for South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299434
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Assessing general and partial equilibrium simulations of Doha round outcomes using meta-analysis
Hess, Sebastian; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2007
Applied general and partial equilibrium models are widely used tools for ex ante analysis of trade policy changes. However, simulation results seem to exhibit significant variation across publications, and the often criticised ‘black box’ character of applied trade models makes meaningful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300178
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The impact of Chinese technical barriers to trade on its manufacturing imports
Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2018
In the past few decades China has put substantial efforts into liberalising its trade and economy that accelerated after its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December 2001. In this period China has significantly reduced its tariffs on manufacturing imports. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985489