Konferenzbeitrag

Free Trade Agreements, Customs Unions In Disguise?

We document a hitherto overlooked stylized fact: countries’ external tariff schedules are surprisingly similar. The correlation is particularly striking for countries belonging to the same deep preferential trade agreement (PTA). We show that most of this is due to selection effects rather than to ex post convergence. This has an important implication: In most PTAs, for a vast majority of products, trade deflection is not profitable even in the absence of costly rules of origin.

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Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2017: Alternative Geld- und Finanzarchitekturen - Session: International Trade and Trade Reforms I ; No. A14-V1

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Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Economic Integration

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Teti, Feodora
Felbermayr, Gabriel
Yalcin, Erdal
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(where)
Kiel, Hamburg
(when)
2017

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  • Konferenzbeitrag

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  • Teti, Feodora
  • Felbermayr, Gabriel
  • Yalcin, Erdal
  • ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Time of origin

  • 2017

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