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Mattoo, Aaditya; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020

This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...

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Contesting an international trade agreement

Cole, Matthew T.; Lake, James; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2018

We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a "parallel contest", that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each other...

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Globalization & regionalization in international trade

Țigănașu, Ramona; Maha, Liviu George; Mursa, Claudiu … - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 2, pp. 5-19

growth of networks of interdependence within multinational regions of the world. The recent decades arecharacterized by the … fact that the world trade grew faster than world output, which implies that an increasing share of world GDP crosses … economic integration is being created within a few specific regions of the world: Europe, North America and East Asia. …

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