Essays about: "Preferential Trade Agreements"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Preferential Trade Agreements.

  1. 1. Climate Leadership in the Trade Regime Complex : An Assessment of the United States Preferential Trade Agreements

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Jens Wickström; [2022]
    Keywords : International Climate Leadership; Global Governance; The US; Preferential Trade Agreements; Regime Complex;

    Abstract : Emissions keep rising, states keep trading, and Earth will be 1.5°C warmer within five years. These are results of inadequate global governance. As globalisation has brought complexity to the international settings, creating overlapping webs of interactions: no International Organisation has properly responded. READ MORE

  3. 2. Can Ethnic Diversity Explain the Varying Effects of Regional Trade Agreements?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Alexandra Sundmark; [2020]
    Keywords : Preferential Trade; Ethnic Fractionalization; Ethnic Polarisation; Heterogeneous Effects; PPML; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In response to the recent stagnation of global economic integration, a large part of world trade today transpires within the boundaries of regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, trade effects are heterogeneous both across and within RTAs - a phenomenon not fully understood. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Trade Effects of Graduation in the EU’s GSP Scheme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Amanda Ring Eggers; [2017]
    Keywords : Graduation; GSP; Developing countries; EU; Gravity Model; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Graduation has been imposed in unilateral preferential trade agreements when product groups from beneficiaries or beneficiaries themselves are viewed as too competitive and developed. What happens to the product groups of the beneficiaries when the trade preferences are withdrawn? This paper addresses the potential trade effects of graduation from the European Unions Generalized System of Preferences by using disaggregated data on HS chapter level. READ MORE

  5. 4. Of Carrots and Sticks

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sarah Göbel; Erlend Malmer; [2017]
    Keywords : EU; Positive and Negative Conditionality; GSP Scheme; Labour rights; Effectiveness; Myanmar and Sri Lanka.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Abstract The European Union is unique in the sense that it promotes human rights and labour rights through its trade policies and agreements. The EU is the world’s largest economy and it plays an important role in today’s world trade. READ MORE

  6. 5. Evaluating the Impact of BITs and Preferential Trade and Investment Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment between Developed Countries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Nikita Napalkov; [2016]
    Keywords : preferential trade and investment agreement; bilateral investment treaty; Foreign direct investment; gravity equation; OECD; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper focuses on the effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements on outwards FDI stocks of developed countries (proxied by OECD countries) in one another in the period of 1985-2013. Estimations are obtained with use of the gravity equation in a large panel based on OECD FDI positions data, where the “knowledge-and-physical-capital model” of international investment motivates the choice of independent variables. READ MORE