Arbeitspapier

Kazakhstan's accession to the WTO: A quantitive assessment

In light of Kazakhstan's interest to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), this paper investigates the impact of the WTO accession on trade flows by using a standard gravity model. It argues that accession to the WTO involves a short run benefit from further reducing tariff and non-tariff barriers, and a long-term strategy that involves institutional reforms. The results indicate that, although Kazakhstan's trade policy with its major partners is well in place, it still has weak market institutions, and gains from accession to the WTO will work best with complementary institutional reforms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECIPE Working Paper ; No. 02/2008

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General
Thema
Kazakhstan
WTO
Institutions
Trade flows
Gravity equation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Khatibi, Arastou
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)
(wo)
Brussels
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Khatibi, Arastou
  • European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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