| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP5775
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| DP5775 Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade |
| Richard Baldwin
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| 发表日期 | 2006-08-23
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| 出版年 | 2006
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade ? what they might look like, what sort of political economy forces might drive them, and what the WTO might do to guide them. Two facts form the point of departure: 1) Regionalism is here to stay; world trade is regulated by a motley assortment of unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; 2) this motley assortment is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade will require a multilateralisation of regionalism. The paper presents the political economy logic of trade liberalisation and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world tariff map in 2010, arguing that the pattern will be marked by fractals ? fuzzy, leaky trade blocs made up of fuzzy, leaky sub-blocs (fuzzy since the proliferation of FTAs makes it impossible to draw sharp lines around the big-3 trade blocs, and leaky since some FTAs create free trade ?canals? linking the big-3 blocs). The paper then presents a novel political economy mechanism ? spaghetti bowls as building blocs ? whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the multilateralisation of regionalism. Finally, the paper suggests three things the WTO could do to help. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics
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| 关键词 | Domino effect
Juggernaut effect
Multilateralism
Regionalism
Rtb unilateralism
Trade
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5775
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534642
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Richard Baldwin. DP5775 Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade. 2006.
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