Internationalisation of Economic Policy Research Paper 2003 / 30 A Grim REPA ?
نویسندگان
چکیده
For a quarter of a century African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have benefited from unreciprocated preferential access to the European Union (EU) market under a succession of Lomé Arrangements. Sunset provisions now apply to these concessions and after 2007 unreciprocated preferences will end. The EU is proposing that a network of Regional Economic Partnership Agreements (REPAs) replace Lomé. This is a new form of regional trading arrangement for both the EU and ACP countries. In this paper we develop an analytical framework for evaluating the impact effects of a REPA and apply this to estimate costs and benefits in the CARICOM region. Our results suggest that a REPA would be inferior on welfare grounds to either extended reciprocity with the EU and US, or broader multilateral liberalisation. JEL classification: F15
منابع مشابه
Internationalisation of Economic Policy Research Paper 2003 / 31 Welfare state , market imperfections and international trade
Within a two-sector-two-country model of trade with aggregate scale economies and unionisation, a more generous welfare state in one country increases welfare in that country and can have positive spillover effects on the other. Furthermore, synchronised expansions of social security are more welfare enhancing than unilateral ones. Our results counter the fears that a race to the bottom in soci...
متن کاملWORKING PAPER 2008 - 08 REPA Resource Economics & Policy Analysis Research Group Department of Economics University of Victoria The Economics of Endangered Species Poaching
Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. This working paper is made available by the Resource Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) Research Group at the University of Victoria. REPA working papers have not been peer reviewed and contain preliminary research findings. They shall not...
متن کاملInternationalisation of Economic Policy Programme Research Paper 2002 / 01 Protection by Tariff Barriers and International Transport Costs
Using estimates of protection in the EU market against US exports, this paper illustrates the relative importance of natural and policy sources of protection and the measurement errors induced in the measurement of effective protection by omitting transactions costs. It also considers protection in the EU 'domestic' and export market, and the implications of the elimination of tariff barriers o...
متن کاملSmall Firm Networking and the Internationalisation of Universities: A Multinational Approach
Thanks also to Rob Branston and Jamie Wilson for research assistance. Any remaining errors are the responsibility of the author. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author and, in particular, they do not represent the views of anybody else involved in L'institute or in the Universities of Birmingham, Ferrara and Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ABSTRACT The paper draws on analysis of ...
متن کاملA Critical Realist Interpretation of Managerial Contacts in Industrial Internationalisation
This conceptual paper reviews the core assumptions of critical realism as a variant of realist philosophy of science as well as its implications for management studies. In addition, the paper reviews previous IMP research on both personal contacts and firm internationalisation. Based on such a review of literature, firm internationalisation and related managerial contacts are conceptualised as ...
متن کامل