Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7356220 | Journal of Applied Economics | 2014 | 25 Pages |
Abstract
The scope of recent regional trade agreements (RTAs) has become much broader than
before by the inclusion of nonconventional provisions such as those on competition policy
and intellectual property rights protection. This paper empirically examines the extent
to which those nonconventional provisions in RTAs enhance international trade between
RTA member countries by estimating a gravity equation with detailed information on the
contents of RTAs. We find that the provision for competition policy has the largest effect
on international trade, followed by the government procurement provision. These two
provisions have significant and positive impacts on intensive margin intensive margin (trade
values per variety) and extensive margin (number of varieties traded)
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Authors
Kazunobu Hayakawa, Fukunari Kimura, Kaoru Nabeshima,