Power, Governance, and Ideas in Chile’s Free Trade Agreement Policy

Power , governance , and ideas in Chile ' s free trade agreement policy

Why is Chile following such a proactive FTA policy and at the same time promoting the benefits of these type of agreements to other Latin American countries? There is a predominance of economic explanations to analyze why countries pursue an active FTA policy. Yet within an FTA policy, understood as an essential component of a country’s foreign policy, strategic and ideational goals are also im...

Good Governance and Trade Policy

2 Summary Economists generally argue that the level and structure of a country's own trade barriers, as well as the "quality" of its governance policies, such as regulations on foreign investment or bureaucratic "red tape" on commercial activity, will have a major influence on its economic growth and performance. However, a problem previously encountered in attempts to test these relations empi...

Trade Policy of a Free Trade Agreement in the Presence of Foreign Lobbying

This paper studies the e¤ect of foreign lobbies on trade policy of a country which is a member of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It uses a monopolistically competitive political economy model in which the government determines external tari¤s endogenously. The e¤ect of foreign lobbying under the FTA is examined empirically using Canadian industry-level trade data that allow di¤erentiating of lob...

The North American Free Trade Agreement.

Investigation and Comparison of the Welfare and Trade Effects of Iran Free Trade Agreement with Turkey, India and Pakistan countries: Computable General Equilibrium Model

Today, preferential and free trade agreements play an effective role in expanding trade in goods and services at the international level and as common practice in business planning and facilitating trade. The purpose of this article is to examine the trade and welfare effects of Iranchr('39')s free trade agreement with Turkey, India and Pakistan. For this purpose, using the Computable General E...