An enhancement of modern free trade area theory (2007)
This paper constructs a framework for analysing the welfare effects of free trade areas. We provide an alternative verification of the Panagariya-Krishna proposition on free trade areas, shortening...
Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...
This paper investigates the role played by domestic importers and foreign exporters in improving preferential access to the domestic market. To this end, the framework used in this paper extends the...
Substitutability and protectionism : Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald
The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...
Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...
Market access for sale : Latin America's lobbying for U.S. tariff preferences
Kee, Hiau Looi, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri
This paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American and Caribbean countries. The basic framework is the one developed that is...
Market Access for Sale: Latin America's Lobbying for US Tariff Preferences
Kee, Hiau Looi, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri
This Paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American countries. The basic framework is one developed by Grossman and Helpman...
An enhancement of modern free trade area theory
This paper constructs a framework for analysing the welfare effects of free trade areas. We provide an alternative verification of the Panagariya-Krishna proposition on free trade areas, shortening...
Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...
Industrial Targeting and Free Trade Areas
In this paper we construct a mechanism where any group of nations can form a welfare enhancing free trade area and, at the same time, satisfy their industrialization targets efficiently. The...
An Enhancement of Modern Free Trade Area Theory
This paper constructs a simplified framework for analyzing the welfare effects of free trade areas. We provide an alternative proof of the Panagariya-Krishna proposition on free trade areas,...
Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...
Industrial targeting in free trade areas with policy independence
We investigate the limits of a mechanism for free trade area (FTA) formation that simultaneously satisfies internal industrialization targets. For arbitrary targets, we find necessary and sufficient...
The Customs Union issue: Why do we observe so few of them?
Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann
The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can...
The Costums Unions Issue: Why do we observe so few of them?
Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann
The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can...
Rules of Origin and Gains from Trade
This paper identifies the most restrictive limit that rules of origin can enforce and still continue to guarantee gains from trade area formation in general settings. Many commonly used rules of...