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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...

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Atlantic versus Pacific agreement in agri-food sectors : does the winner take it all?

Disdier, Anne-Célia; Emlinger, Charlotte; Fouré, Jean - 2015 - This version: July 27, 2015

Trade liberalization of the agri-food sector is a sensitive topic in both Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions. Using a general equilibrium model, we assess the potential impact of these agreements. The US agri-food sectors would...

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The economic impact of deepening trade agreements

Fontagné, Lionel; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele; … - 2022

This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We cluster 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimate the trade elasticity for the different clusters. We then use these elasticities in a series...

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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 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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Do deep trade agreements' provisions actually increase - or decrease - trade and/or FDI?

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Paniagua, Jordi - 2024

Over the past 30 years, “deep trade agreements” (DTAs) have proliferated. DTAs go beyond traditional preferential trade agreements focused historically on reducing tariff rates on goods trade, influencing the behavior of exporting firms and multinational enterprises (MNEs) via a broad swath...

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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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Understanding the latest wave and future shape of regional trade and cooperation agreements in Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath (contributor) - 2006

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Quantifying the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kimura, Fukunari; Okubo, Toshihiro; … - 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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Consequences of FTA withdrawal : evidence from "Uxit"

Gnutzmann, Hinnerk; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Korn, … - 2021

We use a unique case study to estimate the effect of withdrawing from a free trade agreement on international trade. Lately, the political opposition to international economic cooperation has been on the rise, but little is known about how the withdrawal from a trade agreement affects trade. We...

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...

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