The results of liberalization studies can be influenced decisively by the methodology of import tariff aggregation. This article deals with different measures used to aggregate import tariffs. Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of different aggregation measures are discussed...

In diesem Beitrag werden die Effekte eines Freihandelsabkommens zwischen der EU und Indien durch Senkung von Zöllen und nicht-tarifären Handelshemmnissen (NTBs) mit beson-derer Berücksichtigung des Agrar- und Ernährungssektors analysiert. Mit Hilfe eines theorie-basierten Gravitationsmodells...

This paper quantifies the potential impact of European Union enlargement and the consequences of ignoring the non-agricultural component of this integration. We find that agriculture-focused studies offer sound estimates of agriculture-specific production and trade changes, but the estimates of...

October 1996 (edited January 2000 and March 2001) This paper offers a graphical exposition of the GTAP Model of global trade. Particular emphasis is placed on the accounting, or equilibrium, relationships in the model. It begins with a treatment of the a one region version of GTAP, thereafter...

This paper analyses the economic effects of different magnitudes of tariff cuts, different tariff cutting formulas, the implications of tariff capping as well as different numbers and width of tariff bands in the market access pillar of the Doha Round agricultural negotiations. The simulations...

In the current round of negotiations by members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), member countries committed themselves to substantially improving market access and reducing export subsidies and trade-distorting domestic support. The Doha Work Programme adopted by the WTO in 2004 defines...

Over the last decades the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been increasingly influenced by the WTO negotiations. The MacSharry-Reform and the Mid Term Review (MTR) reform of the CAP for example improved the conformity between the EU agricultural policy and the liberalization requirements...