Potential Impacts of Mercosur-Egypt Free Trade Agreement

Does Mercosur ' s Trade Performance

Assessing the Economic Impacts of Free Trade Agreement: A Computable Equilibrium Model Approach

This paper presents assessments of the economic impacts of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) relating to Japan. The analysis relies on a simulation with a computable equilibrium model. The impacts of various combination of FTAs are assessed to draw policy implicaitons. This paper first review the theoretical framework, together with the specification of the simulation model. Then, simulations on the...

The Gains of Economic Integration: Substantive Evidence for an Australia-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Abstract On 6 December 2006, Australia and Korea announced a joint study on a possible Australia-Korea free trade agreement (AKFTA) to promote trade and economic relations between the two countries. The paper provides empirical evidence on the possible gains and their transmission mechanism from this agreement. Significantly, it uses a new economic policy modelling approach, the endogenous grav...

The North American Free Trade Agreement.

The European Union’s Trade Policy towards MERCOSUR

Interregional relations between the European Union and MERCOSUR reflect a general trend of governments and firms to institutionalise their relations not only within but also across regions. As the global liberalization process within the WTO has been stagnating in recent years, transregional strategies have become attractive as next-best strategies. Against this background, the following analys...