| Description |
xv, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Japan-U.S. Center Sanwa monographs on international financial markets |
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Japan-U.S. Center Sanwa monographs on international financial markets.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction and overview -- 2. The economics of preferential trade areas -- 3. Necessarily welfare-improving preferential trade areas -- 4. Geography and preferential trade agreements : the "natural" trading partners hypothesis -- 5. Preferential trading and multilateralism |
| Summary |
"Representing a significant departure from the WTO's central principle of non-discrimination among member countries, preferential trade blocs are now the subject of an intense academic and policy debate. The first section of this 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Trade blocs -- Econometric models.
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International trade -- Econometric models.
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Protectionism -- Econometric models.
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| LC no. |
2005004040 |
| ISBN |
0521770661 hardcover |
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9780521770668 hardback |
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