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Quantifying the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2018

the Americas, Africa and MENA countries slightly lose. 14% of the welfare gains inside the FTA stem from tariffs, the …

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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2019

countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …) products for less developed countries in 1997 and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in 2001 are used to assess … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the …

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Trade Policy Along the Global Value Chain : A Rationale for the Existence of Deep Trade Agreements

Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing

Ornelas, Emanuel - 2019

We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies underinvestment. That inefficiency is mitigated by a PTA, because the agreement...

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Deep Trade Agreements and Heterogeneous Firms Exports

Neri-Lainé, Matteo; Orefice, Gianluca; Ruta, Michele - 2023

This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms’ exports. Using detailed information on the content of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the depth of trade agreements matters for the export...

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Intra-Bloc Tariffs and Preferential Margins in Trade Agreements

Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia - 2021

We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they 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...

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Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium : A Structural Estimation Framework

Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto - 2022

We quantify the relationships between deep trade liberalization and foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we focus on the effects of Deep Trade Agreements (DTAs), and we rely on a structural framework that simultaneously enables us to (i) estimate the direct impact of DTAs on FDI, (ii)...

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The Empire Project : Trade Policy in Interwar Canada

Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - 2023

This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and European Trade Flows : Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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The Brexit Conundrum Worsens the UK's Relationship with the European Union

Ryan, John T - 2019

This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...

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