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Why do countries enter into preferential agreements on trade in services? : assessing the potential for negotiated regulatory convergence in Asian services markets
Sauvé, Pierre; Shingal, Anirudh - 2014
More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … results suggest that countries within Asia that are more remote from the rest of the world and that have similar economic …
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Strengthening India-Nepal economic relations
Taneja, Nisha; Prakash, Shravani; Bimal, Samridhi; … - 2019
transit facility through its territory to access sea ports for trading with rest of the world. Given this, the main objective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029948
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Regulatory disciplines on the mobility of service professionals : lessons from Regional Trade Agreements
Carzaniga, Antonia Giulia; Sharma, Swati - 2022 - Manuscript date: 15 July 2022
When it comes to services traded through the international movement of individuals (mode 4), Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have increasingly adopted trade-facilitating disciplines that both build upon and innovate the GATS framework. By analysing relevant provisions of RTAs, we are able to...
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Determinants of Services Trade Agreement Membership
Egger, Peter H. - 2018
services regulations. This paper provides an economic explanation of services regulation and services preferentialism …
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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The Impacts of Regional Trade Agreements in Force in Europe on Trade in Services
Guillin, Amélie - 2012
Most of countries in the European continent are related to each other by a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) that includes services. The aim of this study is to analyze the pattern of trade in services in Europe. In considering the three main important RTAs in force in Europe, I find that the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113138
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The MERCOSUR and WTO Retreaded Tires Dispute : Rehabilitating Regulatory Competition in International Trade and Environmental Regulation
Morosini, Fabio C. - 2008
Brazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbors Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. It has largely been assumed that this project will produce economic growth and therefore be beneficial for the environment. However, this assumption...
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The Tisa initiative : an overview of market access issues
Marchetti, Juan A.; Roy, Martin - 2013 - Manuscript date: November 27, 2013
This paper aims to provide insights into the market access issues arising in such negotiations. Should TISA negotiations result in participants exchanging the best commitments they have so far undertaken in their preferential trade agreements (PTAs) - a reasonable starting point - 'TISA market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210683
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Why Do Economies Enter into Preferential Agreements on Trade in Services? Assessing the Potential for Negotiated Regulatory Convergence in Asian Services Markets
Sauvé, Pierre - 2016
More than one-third of the World Trade Organization-notified services trade agreements that were in effect between …'s (2004) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995317
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How Much do Agreements Matter for Services Trade?
Shingal, Anirudh - 2012
With an increasing number of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) covering trade in services, we explore the impact of PTAs on services trade. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper in this literature that endogenizes the impact of services preferentialism in estimating the trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116218