Search Results - subject:"PREFERENTIAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION"

Determinants of services trade agreement membership

Egger, Peter; Shingal, Anirudh - In: Review of world economics 157 (2021) 1, pp. 21-64

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Preferential trade agreements and antidumping actions against members and nonmembers

Mukunoki, Hiroshi - 2016

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The Effectiveness of Preferential Trade Liberalization in Central and Eastern Europe

Cieślik, Andrzej; Hagemejer, Jan - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011

their foreign trade regimes in the 1990s. In particular preferential trade liberalization in the CEE countries has been … effectiveness of preferential trade liberalization in Central and Eastern Europe. We find that all forms of preferential trade … liberalization positively contributed to the expansion of trade of the CEE countries but their impact was country specific. …

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Assessing the impact of the EU-sponsored trade liberalization in the MENA countries

Hagemejer, Jan; Cieslik, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The EU-sponsored Barcelona conference in 1995 set the ambitious goal of creating the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EUROMED) that would include the European Union and the MENA countries by 2010. The intermediate steps towards building the EUROMED have involved bilateral “vertical” trade...

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Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited; Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects

Papageorgiou, Chris; Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their empirical support. To account for the model uncertainty that surrounds the validity of the competing PTA theories, we introduce Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to the PTA literature....

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Safta; Living in a World of Regional Trade Agreements

Rodríguez-Delgado, Jose Daniel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The paper evaluates the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) within the global structure of overlapping regional trade agreements (RTAs) using a modified gravity equation. First, it examines the effects of the Trade Liberalization Program which started in 2006. SAFTA would have a minor effect...

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Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA

Mayda, Anna Maria; Steinberg, Chad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade...

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Preferential Trade Liberalization and the Range of Exported Products: The Case of the Euro-Mediterranean FTA

Pacheco, Alberto Amurgo - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2006

the Melitz model and highly dis-aggregated data on Euro-Mediterranean trade to measure the effect of preferential trade … liberalization on the range of traded products. By focusing on the zeros in the trade matrix, the paper finds evidence that at the …

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Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization

Limao, Nuno; Olarreaga, Marcelo - In: The World Bank Economic Review 20 (2006) 2, pp. 217-240

The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it …

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Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa; Past Performance and the Way Forward

Yang, Yongzheng; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries limit both intra- and extraregional trade. Small market size, poor transport...

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