Bu çalışmada Türkiye’nin yapmış olduğu Serbest Ticaret Anlaşmalarının (STA) dış ticaret üzerine etkileri araştırılmıştır. amaçla STA’ların ihracat ve ithalat olan ürün grupları bazında incelenmiştir. 1991-2019 dönemi için STA ülkeler içinde ticarette payı en fazla 12 ülke çalışmaya dahil edilmiştir. Çalışmada uluslararası ticari akımları açıklamak üzere kullanılan yöntemlerden biri çekim modeli...

The role of production subsidies in trade agreements has long been neglected by trade economists. To fill this gap, Bagwell and Staiger (2006) analyze this issue and show that, quite generally, the sole variable efficient trade agreements need to address is market access and that, moreover, the de facto prohibition of subsidies by prevailing WTO legislation is inefficient. The present paper sho...

Trade and investment liberalisation in tobacco products oVers no benefits for tobacco control. Thus, if trade and investment liberalisation—as embodied in international agreements or viewed as an economic process—may harm tobacco control, as we believe it might, then trade and investment liberalisation in tobacco is an unhealthy and inappropriate public policy. We support the resolution of the ...

In view of the ever-increasing globalisation of economy, the removal of technical barriers to trade has become a central political task. To establish the preconditions for free trade throughout world, the World Trade Organization adopted agreement encouraging the development of mutual recognition agreements and of international conformity assessment systems. Such agreements are based on mutual ...

This paper indicates that the consequences of regional trade agreements for the world trade system may be deceiving—an arrangement’s apparent virtue may constitute the source of its drawback. In a model where governments have political, as well as economic, motivations, I show that a free trade area induces its members to reduce protection against the non-members, and to do so sufficiently deep...