Trading Blocs and Welfare: How Trading Bloc Members Are Affected by New Entrants

June 1, 1998

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R. Scott Hacker, and Qaizar Hussain. Trading Blocs and Welfare: How Trading Bloc Members Are Affected by New Entrants, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper uses the three-country duopoly model to examine the effects of lowered trade barriers when a new entrant joins a trading bloc. There are two firms—a small-country firm and a large-country firm within the bloc—and three markets—two within and one (new entrant’s) outside the bloc. The analysis generally shows greater gains for the small-country than for the large-country firm. The small-country firm will export more to the external country than the large-country firm. But if tariffs decline, the export share of the large-country firm will increase relative to the small-country firm’s, though profits will improve more for the latter.

Subject: Exports, Imports, International trade, North American Free Trade Agreement, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade agreements

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Countries decrease, Duopoly, Duopoly model, Eastern Europe, Exports, Imports, Large country, Member-country counterpart, North America, North American Free Trade Agreement, Small-country firm, Tariffs, Trade agreements, Trading Blocs, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

25
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1998/084
Stock No:

WPIEA0841998
ISBN:

9781451850611
ISSN:

1018-5941

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