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International Economic Law Update in Latin America 2016

16 April 2018

To provide a snapshot of 2016 international economic law activity in Latin America, we selected the top ten countries in this field. The criteria used for this selection were size of the economy (GDP), merchandise trade volume, participation as parties in ...

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12 April 2018

A complete collection of research papers is available at http://cdei.itam.mx/es/node/20316/. Author(s): Various. Yes Mexico ...

Service Trade Liberalization in Oman: International Commitments and Trade Performance

9 April 2018

The service sector constitutes an important and a growing sector of the global economy as well as in the Arab region. In Oman, the service sector accounts for the highest share in the sectoral composition of the GDP and constitutes a crucial component of ...

Food and Agricultural Trade in the GCC: An opportunity for South Asia?

9 April 2018

The purpose of the present study is to assess the export potential of food and agricultural items from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. We investigated the pattern of trade ...

Deeper Integration or Wider Integration?: The Case of the Gulf Cooperation Council

9 April 2018

We empirically evaluate whether fostering trade partnership within the region is a better economic course of action for the Gulf Cooperation Council than engaging into preferential trade arrangements with well-established trade blocs outside the region. W ...

Integrating small and medium-sized enterprise into global trade flows

26 February 2018

In China, the term “small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)” refers to “different forms of enterprises under different ownerships that are established within the territory of the People’s Republic of China that meet the social needs and create more job ...

Trade policy without trade facilitation: Lessons from tariff pass-through in Tunisia

17 February 2018

prices. This research suggests that, for Tunisia, trade facilitation ...

Impact of non-tariff measures on SMEs in Tunisia

17 February 2018

This paper analyses the overall effect of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) on firms in Tunisia, with a particular attention paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It draws a precise view of NTMs effects on firms’ imports as well as on firms’ product ...

Standards and Market Power: Evidence from Tunisia

17 February 2018

We develop a theoretical model and derive conditions under which firms with market power try to influence the setting of quality standards and describe the political equilibrium. We show that in political equilibrium the positive association only holds fo ...

In search of new development model for Tunisia: assessing the performance of the offshore regime

17 February 2018

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the offshore regime in Tunisia and to assess the overall effects of this export promoting strategy for the years 2002-2014. Using firm-level data, we look in particular at its impact on turnover, productivity, ...

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