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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521770668
Despite the successes achieved in liberalizing trade by
multilateral trade negotiations sponsored by the World Trade
Organization (WTO), numerous countries have separately negotiated
preferential trade treaties with one another. Representing a
significant departure from the WTO’s central principle of
non-discrimination among member countries, preferential trade blocs
are the subject of an intense academic and policy debate. 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, the quantitative (econometric)
evaluation of the economic (welfare) impact of preferential trade
liberalization, and the impact of preferential trade agreements and
the multilateral trade system.
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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