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The number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements has surged in recent years. In order to benefit from preferential tariff rates,firms must apply and comply with rules of origin requirements. This is costly and explains why preference utilization rates (PUR) are far below 100 percent. In...
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Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form...
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investigates the impact of biofuel investments on growth, poverty, and food security in Ethiopia using a dynamic computable general … yielded the FGT poverty indices. The results suggest that biofuel investments provide a new opportunity for enhancing economic … growth and reducing poverty. Our results also show the complementarities between "biofuels" and "food" production. …
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