Free Trade Agreements and Globalisation

✍ Scribed by Arne Melchior

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the fast spread of free trade agreements (FTAs) across the globe, their content and their economic impact. In the wake of Brexit and the new protectionism of President Trump, Melchior offers a timely assessment of key issues relating to FTAs.

Dividing the world into seven major regions, he analyses world trade, the globalisation of FTAs and their role within and between the regions. Using a new world trade model, he then presents new evidence on the impact of trade agreements, the value of trade, the impact of China’s growth and the West’s industrial decline, and the role of reciprocity in trade policy. Covering rich and poor countries, commodity exporters and all of the world’s regions, he offers new and original insights about a number of pertinent issues facing today’s world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction and Overview (Arne Melchior)....Pages 1-17
A Portrait of World Trade (Arne Melchior)....Pages 19-36
The Global Landscape of FTAs (Arne Melchior)....Pages 37-48
Tariffs: The Most and the Least Favoured Nations (Arne Melchior)....Pages 49-65
Non-tariff Issues in FTAs (Arne Melchior)....Pages 67-92
How Important Is Trade? Estimates from a World Trade Model (Arne Melchior)....Pages 93-113
Trade, USA and the Rise of China: Pains and Gains (Arne Melchior)....Pages 115-130
Global Versus Local Integration and Europe’s Options (Arne Melchior)....Pages 131-145
Trade Policy Spillovers and Regulatory Cooperation (Arne Melchior)....Pages 147-171
Back Matter ....Pages 173-276

✦ Subjects

Economics; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Trade; International Economic Law, Trade Law; Political Economy/Economic Policy; Economic Systems; European Integration