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Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115517
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124456
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464375
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462834
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462864
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Capable companies or changing markets? Explaining the export performance of firms in the defence industry
Castellacci, Fulvio; Fevolden, Arne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on quantitative firm-level data analysis for the whole population of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418488
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The Next Chapter of ASEAN Economic Community through Integrating with the existing FTA partners (RCEP), Turkey, and Pakistan
durongkaveroj, wannaphong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic integration is nowadays likely to be larger in major economies around the world, especially among the ten active countries in the Southeast Asia. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of the possible trade agreement between the ASEAN and its current FTA partners as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240208
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The Euro Experience and Lessons for Latin America
Hurtado, Carlos - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2012) 92, pp. 1-6
It is natural to think, and economic theory predicts, that integration in an economic zone like Europe fosters growth and development, particularly when integration refers to trade opening among countries. It is expected that openness (to trade) promotes growth and being closed (to trade) deters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147613
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Beyond Trade Creation: Free Trade Agreements and Trade Disputes
Qiu, Larry Dongxiao; LI, Tan - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade disputes. We construct a unique and comprehensive dataset on inter-country trade disputes from 1995 to 2007. The dataset covers 110 countries and 1130 trade disputes. We find that the incidences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212906
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Regulatory Transparency in Multilateral Agreements Controlling Exports of Tropical Timber, E-Waste and Conflict Diamonds
Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de …; … - 2012
Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007559