(primarily benchmarks). Internationally, although NAFTA played an important role as a „building block“ for the WTO agreement, we … argue the lack of market coverage and more far-reaching WTO agreement ultimately limited NAFTA's role in driving reform. The … WTO und einseitigen Initiativen der USA (insbesondere Benchmarks). Die NAFTA war zwar ein wichtiger ?Baustein? für das WTO …

bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … years after the treaty has come into effect questions emerge to what extent NAFTA was able to reduce the migration pressure …

Taking advantage of the liberalization process under NAFTA, this paper assesses the relative importance of the degree … of trade openness and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in explaining inter-industry wage differentials for the case of …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …

North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … accounted for by a small number of plants which were larger and more productive before the implementation of NAFTA and expanded … and became more productive following the implementation of NAFTA. Plants that exported before NAFTA and export …

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis … 1999 in industries liberalized relatively rapidly by NAFTA, launched in 1994, than in industries liberalized relatively …

In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We … argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take …-level data and compare the behavior of employment, production and investment after two big real exchange rate shocks: the first …

This paper analyses the liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico since the late-1980s, and its …

the NAFTA agreement, and its impact on economic performance. The average growth of GDP of the Mexican economy since … income elasticity of demand for imports (partly associated with an increase in foreign direct investment with a high import …