Understanding the Welfare Implications of Preferential Trade Agreements

Ayhan Kose and Raymond Riezman

Chapter 7 in International Trade Agreements and Political Economy, 2013, pp 85-99 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis paper examines various implications of preferential trade agreements, namely customs unions and free trade areas, in the context of a multicountry general equilibrium model. The model is calibrated to represent countries with symmetric endowments, and aggregate and disaggregate welfare change measures are used to quantify the welfare effects of preferential trade agreements. It is found that free trade areas are better than customs unions on welfare grounds for the world as a whole. Welfare decompositions suggest that a significant fraction of the welfare changes is explained by the voiume-of-trade effect for both types of preferential trade agreements.

Keywords: International Trade; Political Economy; Theory of International Free Trade Agreements; Customs Unions; Tariff Dynamics; Storable Votes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Understanding the Welfare Implications of Preferential Trade Agreements (2000)
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