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Survey on Free Trade Agreements and Customs Unions
Weerth, Carsten - 2009
From 1948 to 1994, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Secretariat received 124 indications of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) relating to the trade in goods, and since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, more than 240 additional RTAs (covering trade in...
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Will a Regional Bloc Enlarge?
Albertin, Giorgia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper investigates whether a regional bloc would enlarge or remain stagnant in size using a model where enlargement is the endogenous outcome of the interaction between the supply of and demand for membership. We show that a maximum size of the bloc exists beyond which the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263932
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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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Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa; Past Performance and the Way Forward
Yang, Yongzheng; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries limit both intra- and extraregional trade. Small market size, poor transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768946
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BRICSAM and the non–WTO
Antkiewicz, Agata; Whalley, John - In: The Review of International Organizations 1 (2006) 3, pp. 237-261
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Preferential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Feridhanusetyawan, Tubagus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and are creating a complex web of intersecting bilateral and regional trade agreements. This paper describes the proliferation of these PTAs, discusses their characteristics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599528
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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
WTO accession, this may cause delays that benefit some countries at the expense of others. The paper simulates the welfare … attempt to assess the welfare implications of joining the EAEC as a political and economic entity, but only the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769132
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International integration processes influence on welfare of country
Bazaluk, Oleg; Yatsenko, Olha; Reznikova, Nataliia; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 2, pp. 382-398
national welfare. Peculiarities of trade and economic liberalization of trade through mechanism of regional trade agreements … national economic growth rates and on GDP per capita (as major parameters reflecting national welfare level) was simulated … increasing of national welfare shall occur in Ukraine and China. …
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Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia - In: Journal of international economics 138 (2022), pp. 1-26
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Customs Unions and Contingent Protection between Competing Exporters
Tabakis, Chrysostomos - 2023
This paper explores the ramifications of customs unions (CUs) for multilateral trade cooperation within an economic environment characterized by trade-volume volatility and in a competing-exporters framework. We demonstrate that the parallel formation of different CUs leads to a gradual but...
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