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Vertical trade and free trade agreements [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2010
Abstract We investigate the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on tariffs and welfare in vertical trade. We consider a three-country model, where an FTA is formed between a country exporting a final good and a country exporting an intermediate good.
Yasushi Kawabata   +2 more
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Free trade agreements without delocation [PDF]

open access: possibleCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2000
Small nations fear that FTAs with larger, richer nations will erode their industrial bases. These concerns are recognized in FTA and multilateral talks: small nations may explicitly or implicitly maintain higher trade barriers. Using a model where symmetric liberalization de‐industrializes small, poor nations, we characterize the path of protection ...
Richard E. Baldwin   +1 more
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On the trade-diversion effects of free trade agreements

Economics Letters, 2014
Trade-diversion effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) have not been thoroughly examined empirically. Using a novel empirical approach, we confirm that FTAs divert trade away from non-member countries and even more so from internal trade (domestic sales) in member countries.
Yoto V. Yotov   +3 more
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The Rise of the Free Trade Agreement [PDF]

open access: possibleChallenge, 2004
With the many recent failures of multilateral trade agreements, bilateral free trade agreements have moved front and center. Not only are they becoming an integral part of American economic policy, they are also being wielded as an instrument of foreign policy. The author summarizes the good and bad of the popular idea.
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The EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement: Making of a "Deep" Free Trade Agreement

Global Economy Journal, 2012
Korea a dynamic newly-industrialized economy, and the EU, the largest economic block have negotiated an FTA. It came in force on July 1, 2011. Before the FTA was formed, the two were important trading partners of each other. Korea has enjoyed a trade surplus in merchandise trade vis-à-vis the EU. An overwhelmingly large proportion of EU-Korea trade is
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Expansion of Free Trade Agreements, Overlapping Free Trade Agreements,and Market Size

2016
This chapter investigates whether the formation of bilateral overlapping free trade agreements (FTAs) between dissimilar countries becomes a building block or a stumbling block for multilateral free trade (MFT). Our main conclusions are as follows. Suppose that a bilateral FTA between symmetric countries is already formed. (i) A bilateral FTA becomes a
Makoto Okamura   +3 more
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The Expressive Free Trade Agreement

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
In the international investment context, this paper focuses on the expressive power of the FTAs or BITs; expression of them may impact the players in the games. First, the paper examines the boost of the BITs and FTAs. The main focus is to test the application of game theory to the FTAs or BITs; the one is sequential game and the other is simultaneous (
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