2010年6月17日 · In this article, Professor Shujiro Urata of the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University and of the Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry, gives an overview of the various types of regional trade agreements (RTAs), and examines the background to the growing trend towards regionalism in the 1990s.

We examine the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) use on import prices. For this analysis, we employ establishment-level import data with information on tariff schemes, that is, the FTA and...

This paper attempts to examine the impact of an East Asia FTA on trade patterns in East Asia by using a multi-sector computable general equilibrium model. The model used in this analysis is the standard GTAP model and GTAP database developed by Hertel (1997) and his colleagues of Purdue University.

" Estimating the Impacts of FTA on Foreign Trade: An analysis of extensive and intensive trade margins for the Japan-Mexico FTA," Discussion papers 16003, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).

2015年3月31日 · “Impact of FTA on Trade in ASEAN and Australia Using Customs Level Data,” Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 36, No. 3, September 2021, 437-461 (with S. Thangavelu, and D.A, Narjoko)

2010年6月17日 · In this article, Professor Shujiro Urata of the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University and of the Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry, gives an overview of the various...

Constructing and Multilateralizing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: An Asian Perspective The paper analyses the feasibility of constructing a region-wide FTA, or RCEP, in East Asia and examines ways to multilateralize the RCEP.

In this section, we analyze the trade creation and diversion effects in seven multilateral RTAs, that is, European Union (EU), North American FTA (NAFTA), ASEAN FTA (AFTA), Mercado Comun del Sur (MERCOSUR), Andean Sub-regional Integration Agreement (CAN), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Pan-Arab FTA.

Factors behind their change in the views toward FTAs: (1) FTAs are increasing discrimination, (2) little (no) progress in trade liberalization in WTO III. 2000s: ASEAN+1 FTAs and Beginning of Discussions on Region-wide FTAs: ASEAN+3 FTA, ASEAN+6 FTA, CJK FTA, and TPP

2016年2月20日 · This study examines the impacts of Japan-Mexico FTA (JMXFTA) on Japanese exports to Mexico. The authors construct a theoretical trade model of heterogeneous firms based on the Melitz-Chaney model, and derive the theoretical relationship of the impacts of tariff changes on extensive and intensive trade margins.