Why OECD Countries Should Reform Rules of Origin (2008)
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime
With preferential trade agreements on the rise worldwide rules of origin—which are necessary to prevent trade deflection—are attracting increasing attention. At the same time, preference erosion...
Grether, Jean-Marie, Mathys, Nicole Andréa, De Melo, Jaime
Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions....
Grether, Jean-Marie, Mathys, Nicole Andréa, De Melo, Jaime
Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions....
Grether, Jean-Marie, Mathys, Nicole Andréa, De Melo, Jaime
Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions....
Unraveling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect (2007)
Grether, Jean-Marie, De Melo, Jaime
This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and...
Unraveling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect (2007)
Grether, Jean-Marie, De Melo, Jaime
This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and...
Unraveling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect (2007)
Grether, Jean-Marie, De Melo, Jaime
This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and...
Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under NAFTA (2005)
Cadot, Olivier, Carrère, Céline, De Melo, Jaime, Portugal-Pérez, Alberto
The effective market access granted to textiles and apparel under the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) is estimated, taking into account the presence of rules of origin. First, estimates...
Has Distance Died? Evidence from a Panel Gravity Model (2005)
Brun, Jean-François, Carrère, Cline, Guillaumont, Patrick, De Melo, Jaime
The estimated coefficient of distance on the volume of trade is generally found to increase rather than decrease through time using the traditional gravity model of trade. This distance puzzle proved...
Has Distance Died? Evidence from a Panel Gravity Model (2005)
Brun, Jean-François, Carrère, Céline, Guillaumont, Patrick, De Melo, Jaime
The estimated coefficient of distance on the volume of trade is generally found to increase rather than decrease through time using the traditional gravity model of trade. This distance puzzle proved...
Lobbying, Counterlobbying, and the Structure of Tariff Protection in Poor and Rich Countries (2004)
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
A political economy model of protection is used to determine endogenously the intersectoral patterns of protection. Three propositions are derived that are consistent with the stylized patterns of...
Firm-Level Responses to the CFA Devaluation in Cameroon (1997)
Tybout, James, Gauthier, Bernard, Navaretti, Giorgio Barba, De Melo, Jaime
This article assesses the impact of the CFAF devaluation on industrial enterprises in Cameroon. Using detailed survey data spanning the 1992–95 period, the article documents and interprets firms'...
Voluntary Export Restraints and Resource Allocation in Exporting Countries (1990)
De Melo, Jaime, Winters, L. Alan
This article analyzes the resource implications of voluntary export restraints (VERs) for exporting countries. A simple analytical method is used to demonstrate that, by reducing the marginal revenue...
FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence
De Melo, Jaime, Ivlevs, Artjoms
This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct investment (FDI) from the standpoint of sending countries. A skeleton general...
Rules of Origin, Preferences and Diversification in Apparel: African Exports to the US and to the EU
De Melo, Jaime, Portugal-Pérez, Alberto
The EU and the US offer similar preferential market access for apparel exports to a group of African countries. These agreements differ in their product-specific rules of origin (PSRO). While EBA and...
The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets
Carrère, Céline, De Melo, Jaime
LDCs hoped that the DOHA round would bring them greater market access in OECD countries than for non-LDCs. Using HS-6 tariff level data for the US and the EU for 2004, this paper estimates that, once...
The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries
Carrère, Céline, De Melo, Jaime, Wilson, John
The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it...