Trade Blocs - Economics and Politics

Klappentext A 2005 investigation of the economics and politics of preferential trade agreements in the multilateral trade system. Zusammenfassung The first section of this 2005 book presents a rudimentary and intuitive introduction to the economics of preferential trade agreements. The following chapters present the author's theoretical and empirical research on a number of questions surrounding the issue of preferential trade agreements including the design of necessarily welfare-improving trade blocs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and overview: 1.1 Research objectives; 1.2 Outline; 2. The economics of preferential trade areas: 2.1 Trade creation and trade diversion; 2.2 Revenue transfer effects; 3. Necessarily welfare improving preferential trade areas: 3.1 Customs unions; 3.2 Non-economic objectives; 3.3 Free trade areas; 3.4 Implementation; 4. Geography and natural trading partners: 4.1 Modeling preferential trade liberalization: theory; 4.2 Modeling preferential trade liberalization: econometrics; 4.3 Data and estimation results; 5. Preferential trade agreements and multilateralism.

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• Authors: Pravin Krishna, Pravin (Brown University Krishna, Krishna Pravin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521158114
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15811-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Japan-Us Center Ufj Bank Monog; Japan-US Center UFJ Bank Monographs on International Financial Markets
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, International Trade, International trade and commerce