The conclusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) constitutes a priority and key component of … the new external trade policy of the European Union (EU) and an immediate follow-up to several years of regulatory … cooperation between the two global trade powers. In an era of megaregionals, services in the only area where significant …

. Our model suggests trade policy substitution in developed countries, where the costs of compliance are relatively low, but …We build a political-economy model of 'trade policy substitution' – namely, substitution of tariffs with non …-tariff measures – as a function of differentials between domestic and foreign firms in the costs of complying with product standards …

measure of the change in bilateral trade costs in response to a hypothetical policy change. To demonstrate the effectiveness …We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and … of our methods, we focus on the integration between the countries from the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA …

form Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower preferential … margins when the bloc takes the form of a free trade area (where members set external trade policies independently), relative … trade areas) preferential margins should increase with the supply of partner countries and decrease with the level of …

offset the losses from the US-China trade war for the world, but not for the United States. In fact, these agreements will … magnify the effects of the trade war as they disadvantage US trade relative to intra-East Asian trade, at the expense of …

This study revisits the trade and welfare effects of 19th century bilateralism exploiting the latest developments in … structural gravity models, including the consideration of domestic trade. Using bilateral trade data between 1855 and 1875, I … show that the Cobden-Chevalier network, i.e. a system of bilateral trade agreements including the Most Favored Nation …

trade agreements (FTAs). This paper is devoted to the EUSouth Korea agreement, which is the first ‘second-generation’ FTA of …-South Korea trade relationship and the role of NTMs in ex-ante and ex-post analyses of the agreement. Subsequently a structural … evaluating their ability to predict the trade effects of the EU-South Korea FTA. Our results show that, when accounting for …

and its economic impacts on the domestic market. Under free trade, the foreign upstream firm's CSR initiative realizes … manufacturer has more of an incentive to implement CSR when the government implements a strategic trade policy. The consumer …