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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Preference erosion and the developing countries exports to the EU: a dynamic panel gravity approach
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| Autores: |
Raimondi, Valentina
Scoppola, Margherita
Olper, Alessandro
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| Data: |
2011-04-30
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| Ano: |
2011
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| Palavras-chave: |
Trade Preferences
Gravity Equation
Tariff Rate Quotas
EU Rice Policy
GMM
Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade
F13
Q17
F14
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| Resumo: |
Since 2004 there has been a sharp decrease in border protection for the EU rice industry. Because the EU grants trade preferences to a considerable number of rice exporting developing countries, the reform implied preference erosion as well. By addressing the impact of preference erosion on developing countries rice exports to the EU, this paper contributes two original insights to the literature: first, by proposing a new empirical approach to compute the preference margin when tariff rate quotas are in force which is based on the assumption of the existence of fixed costs and economies of scale in international trade; second, by estimating the trade elasticities of preferences by means of a dynamic panel gravity equation to deal with the issues of endogeneity of preferences and persistency in bilateral trade flows. The results show that the way preference margins are calculated matters significantly when assessing the existence and extent of their erosion and the values of trade elasticities. Finally, the estimations highlight the fact that the impact of preferences is still very strong for some of the countries concerned.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/103391
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Selected paper
ID 13270
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| Formato: |
28
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