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Impacts of free trade agreements on business activity in Asia : the case of Japan

Hirastuka, Daisuke; Sato, Hitoshi; Isono, Ikumo - 2009

in which they assumed that any firm can maximize profits by utilizing FTA preferential tariffs without any additional … arrangements from which tariffs are completely exempted, such as the Information Technology Agreement and the special exemption of … tariffs under Thailand's Board of Investment laws. Phase-out tariff reduction schedules, in which tariffs are gradually …

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...

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Trade integration and the fragility of trade relationships : a product level perspective ; conference paper

Besedeš, Tibor; Nitsch, Volker - 2013 - Preliminary

We investigate the effect of economic integration agreements on the stability of international trade at the 4 digit SITC level. Using annual trade data for over 180 countries from 1962 to 2005 we examine how economic integration agreements affect the length of trade relationships, the volume at...

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The effect of preferential trade agreements on Pakistan's export performance

Alam, Shaista - 2015

the period 2003 to 2010. The analysis covers the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and five bilateral PTAs with China … effect panel data techniques. The SAFTA and PTAs with China and Iran are associated with improved export performance in terms … Mauritius, whereas with Sri Lanka and China product diversification declined. …

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Making (small) firms happy : the heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2016 - Manuscript date: 02 April 2016

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilita- tion Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic...

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On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements : lessons from twenty years of trade integration

Baier, Scott L.; Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas - 2016

We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...

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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation

Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 October 2014

We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December 2013 - we show that trade facilitation in a given...

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What drives Africa`s export diversification?

Kamuganga, Dick N. - 2012

The primary purpose of this paper is to seek empirical answers to the above question. Using a highly disaggregated bilateral trade flows at HS 6 digit level for African countries for a period 1995-2009 and a conditional logit technique, I find 3 main empirical results. First, intra-Africa...

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Need for speed : is faster trade in the EU trade-creating?

Hornok, Cecília - 2012

Timely deliveries have become more important in international trade in the recent decades, mostly because of the spread of international production fragmentation. This paper provides empirical evidence on the cost of time in trade by looking at how faster trade within the European Union (EU)...

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Trade agreements and bilateral trade in sub-Saharan Africa : estimating the trade effects of the EU-ACP PTA and RTAs

Turkson, Festus Ebo - 2012

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade involving SSA countries. The main...

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