Through its diverse trade preference schemes, the European Union provides different groups of developing countries with different degrees of market access. This paper is the first to demonstrate empirically that such staggered market access induces sizable trade diversion to the detriment of relatively less preferred beneficiary countries. In particular, preferences granted to African, Caribbean and Pacific economies are shown to impair the export...
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2008/09/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4710
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Trade diversion under selective preferential market access
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Canadian Journal of Economics