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Value of WTO Trade Agreements in a New Keynesian Model

Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Providing institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
Ort:
Washington, D.C
Date:
2015
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
We revisit the question of the quantitative benefits of WTO trade agreements in a setup that is non-standard from the traditional trade policy point of view. We show that in a New Keynesian model, unilateral trade liberalization reduces welfare due to terms-of-trade deterioration, creating an incentive for a trade agreement. For realistic parameter values, the value of an agreement, which cuts tariffs by one percentage point, is 0.5% to 2% of consumption, much larger than in trade models. The intuition for this result hinges on some New Keynesian features of our framework, such as imperfect competition and endogenous labor supply
Object text:
Ganelli, Giovanni
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Created:
2023-04-14
Last changed:
2023-01-26
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2023-04-14