Erosion of trade preferences currently being enjoyed by LDCs and some developing countries remain an important area in the on-going trade negotiations. The different positions regarding the preference erosion question besides being informed by political economy considerations are also founded on...

MIRAGE est un modele d'equilibre general calculable multi-sectoriel et multi-regional, destine a l'analyse des politiques commerciales. Il incorpore des elements de concurrence imparfaite, de differenciation des produits par varietes et par gammes de qualite, et d'investissement direct a...

L'eventualite d'un accord de libre-echange des Ameriques accroit les chances qu'un accord commercial soit conclu entre l'Union europeenne et le Mercosur. Cet article examine les consequences de trois scénarios de liberalisation possibles, qui different par le degre d'inclusion de l'agriculture...

Institutional regionalization has come late to East Asia compared to Europe, but its pace has accelerated since the mid-1990s. Many agreements, including bilateral ones, cover an ever-increasing portion of the East Asian region, including China. We first analyze regional economic integration in...

Trade negotiations deal with possible cuts in bound duties, which differ substantially from applied preferential duties, and even from MFN applied duties. Based on WTO's Consolidated Tariff Schedules (CTS) database and on national sources, this paper proposes a systematic assessment of ad...

This paper seeks to analyse the impact of European Union enlargement on accession countries and current EU as a whole, using a Computable General Equilibrium Model. Our aim is to provide an assessment of the impact of enlargement on the size and efficiency of firms and the varieties of products...