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The Preference for New Preferential Trade Agreements: Does It Lead to a Good Use of Scarce Resources?
Kerr, William A. - 2011
table. Despite these potential benefits, there appears to be little enthusiasm for recontracting efforts centred on existing …, incorporating a formal recontracting mechanism into new agreements will provide opportunities to garner additional gains from trade …
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The preference for new preferential trade agreements : does it lead to a good use of scarce resources?
Kerr, William A. - In: The Estey Centre journal of international law and trade … 12 (2011) 1, pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567593
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The role of microeconomic policy reform in regional integration â۠analytical and empirical issues
Dee, Philippa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
and performance of all regulations and institutions on an ongoing basis, and in a way that involves all relevant … stakeholders. Such policy review institutions can provide technical solutions, helping to identify particular reform options. They … of such institutions, and provides examples from around the Asian region. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363714
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East Asian and Pacific Integration Strategies
Legg, Chris - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365317
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Central America; Global Integration and Regional Cooperation
Rodlauer, Markus; Schipke, Alfred - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Central America has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. This paper examines—among other things—the macroeconomic and fiscal implications of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA-DR), noting that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252532
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Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited; Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects
Papageorgiou, Chris; Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their empirical support. To account for the model uncertainty that surrounds the validity of the competing PTA theories, we introduce Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to the PTA literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263980
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Are Regional Trade Agreements in Asia Stumbling or Building Blocks? Some Implications for the Mekong-3 Countries
Tumbarello, Patrizia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of turning into an unmanageable "noodle bowl" in the future? The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this question. The results show that membership in the Asian RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263990
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Trade Liberalization Strategies; What Could South Eastern Europe Learn From Cefta and Bfta?
Adam, Antonis; McHugh, James; Kosma, Theodora - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper explores the effectiveness of the Central European Free Trade Area (CEFTA) and the Baltic Free Trade Area (BFTA). Estimates from a gravity model and bilateral trade data support the view that both CEFTA and BFTA helped expand regional trade and limit the emergence of a "hub-and-spoke"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769035
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Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession; Which is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the Cis
Tumbarello, Patrizia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for some member countries of the Commonwealth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769132
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Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA
Mayda, Anna Maria; Steinberg, Chad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769302