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Multilateral Trade Liberalization, Political Disintegration and the Choice of Free Trade Agreements Versus Customs Unions

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

- one about how multilateral trade liberalization affects regional integration, the other about how it affects political … recent wave of regional integration arrangements. Alesina and others (1997), in discussing the number and size of countries … integration arrangements increases, the ratio of free trade areas to customs unions also increases. The same arguments are also …

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Understanding the Welfare Implications of Preferential Trade Agreements

Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2004

This paper examines various implications of preferential trade agreements, namely customs unions and free trade areas, in the context of a multicountry general equilibrium model. The model is calibrated to represent countries with symmetric endowments, and aggregate and disaggregate welfare...

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Customs Unions with Global Trade Agreements

Haaparanta, Pertti J.; Riipinen, Toni - 2002

The Kemp-Wan proposition on the existence of Pareto-improving customs union is extended by allowing the customs union to make trade agreements with non-members. We show that given some unused gains from trade a customs union improving its member' welfare with unchanged non-members' welfare...

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Angola - Portugal : do espaço económico português às relações pós-coloniais

Ferreira, Manuel Ennes - 1990

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Greening trade agreements through harmonization of environmental regulations

Kawabata, Yasushi; Takarada, Yasuhiro - In: Environmental and resource economics 86 (2023) 1/2, pp. 57-81

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Free Trade Agreements Versus Customs Unions

Krueger, Anne O. - 2021

Until NAFTA, analyses of preferential trading arrangements began by assuming a customs union with a common external tariff, and the differences between customs unions and free trade agreements (FTAs) have been little analyzed. This paper points to some of the differences between FTAs and customs...

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