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FDI and intra-industry trade in the automotive industry in the new EU Member States
Ambroziak, Łukasz - In: International journal of management and economics 52 (2016) 1, pp. 23-42
This paper investigates the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) influenced intra-industry trade (IIT) in automotive products in six New EU Member States (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) in the 1995-2014 period. Changes in IIT intensity are...
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EU-ACP economic partnership agreements and ACP integration
Milner, Chris; Morrissey, Oliver; Zgovu, Evious - 2009
The direct effects of EPAs on ACP countries arise from the requirement to eliminate tariffs on most imports from the EU. While consumers gain from cheaper imports, the government losses tariff revenue and producers face increased completion, implying adjustment costs. This paper estimates the...
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Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries : What is at Stake for Senegal?
Berisha-Krasniqi, Valdete; Bouët, Antoine; Mevel, Simon - 2012
In recent years the European Union has sought to transform its trading regime with the ACP countries by advocating reciprocal free trade agreements with them through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). As a result, the EPA talks were launched in 2002 and were expected be completed by the end...
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Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade of NAFTA and MERCOSUR : The Case of the Automobile Industry
Montout, Sylvie - 2013
The NAFTA and MERCOSUR agreements seem to have accelerated the regional integration process respectively within North and South of America. In the South in particular, MERCOSUR has led to trade liberalization and deregulation, which has resulted in significant growth of its regional trade. In...
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Quantifying the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2018
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …
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Does East Asian Integration Keep Up With the European Pattern? Empirical Evidence from Intra-Industry Trade in Europe and East Asia
Kang, Yoo-Duk - 2012
This paper examines development of inter/intra-industry trade in Europe and East Asia. In order to quantify the level of intra-industry trade (IIT), a bias-corrected Grubel and Lloyd index is used. The finding is that IIT is more evident in intra-European trade than in intra-East Asian trade,...
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The institutional challenge of the ACP/EU Economic Partnership Agreements
Borrmann, Axel; Busse, Matthias - 2006
The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union could serve as an opportunity to accelerate global and regional trade integration of ACP countries. Moreover, the European Commission intends to use EPAs as a...
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MFN in the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement : Policy Blunder or Legal Inconsistency?
Chase, Claude - 2011
The Caribbean Forum-European Communities (CARIFORUM-EC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) represents a new era of development cooperation and trade relations between the European Union on the one hand, and a subgrouping of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of countries on the...
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The European Union–West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement : Small Impact and New Questions
Bouët, Antoine - 2017
Despite recent modifications, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and West African (WA) countries is still being criticized for its potential detrimental effects on WA countries. This paper provides updated evidence on the impact of the EPA on these...
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An Impact Study of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in the Six ACP Regions
Fontagne, Lionel - 2012
This study intends to present a very detailed and dynamic analysis of the trade-related aspects of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations. We use a dynamic partial equilibrium model - focusing on the demand side - at the HS6 level (covering 5,113 HS6 products). Two alternative lists...
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