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Japan-Europe, the unnoticed megadeal

Post, October 26, 2017
By Sébastien Jean

Trade between Japan and the EU is not a big deal in world trade, barely more than 1%. Their Economic Partnership Agreement can nevertheless be very influential because, jointly, they are a party in more than 40% of world trade, and much more in innovative sectors.

Latin America : Investing in infrastructure is key to achieve long term sustained growth

Post, June 27, 2017
By Camilo Umana Dajud

The sharp drop in commodity prices has had a sizeable impact on Latin America's short term growth prospects. The decline in terms of trade has also revealed, once again, the low productivity of the region's economies. Investing in infrastructure could help Latin America simultaneously address these short and long term challenges.

The international elasticity puzzle is worse than you think

Post, May 11, 2017
By Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Orefice, Philippe Martin

With Brexit and the election of D. Trump, tariffs and exchange rates are back at the centre stage of policy debates. This column revisits the assumptions economists make when estimating how tariffs and exchange rates affect exporters’ performance.

Multi-destination exporters coping with stringent technical regulations

Post, February 20, 2017
By Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Orefice

Regulation is a barrier to trade. A recent CEPII Working Paper uses French firm-level panel data to assess how technical barriers to trade impact firms’ exports.

Donald Trump fighting a losing battle against geography

Post, February 3, 2017
By Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Santoni

The US President has a problem with the American geography – a problem called Mexico.

Carrier International: the beginning of the unraveling of globalization?

Post, December 15, 2016
By Jean-Francois Boittin

Dec. 1st may well be remembered in the history books of the 22nd century as the beginning of the end of globalization. This is the day when the President-elect paraded his “victory” over the management of Carrier International, a unit of United Technologies that had announced the move of 2,000 some jobs to Mexico.

Comments on IMF’s “Global Trade: What’s behind the Slowdown?” – or why there is more to trade slowdown than weak demand

Post, October 18, 2016
By Sébastien Jean

The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook points to weak demand and investment as the main factor behind the world trade slowdown. I argue that this conclusion is overblown and that the high-quality underlying work falls well short of explaining the slow trade puzzle.

How Multi-Destination Firms Shape the Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade

Post, June 14, 2016
By Jérôme Héricourt, Clément Nedoncelle

The idea that exchange rate volatility could be detrimental to international trade is widely accepted. Surprisingly, macroeconomic evidence on its impact on trade yields either small or insignificant effect on aggregate outcomes. This column suggests that the behavior of big, multi-destination firms help explain this puzzle.

Enforcement of FTAs: lessons for TPP and new trade agreements

Post, December 15, 2015
By Sébastien Jean, Kevin Lefebvre

The U.S. administration insists on the fact that the TPP is ‘enforceable’. If experience of previous US trade agreements is to offer any guidance, this enforceability cannot be taken for granted. Yet the stakes are high for both regional trade rules’ credibility, and for multilateralism’s future.

After TPP: the EU shouldn’t rush into concluding TTIP

Post, October 15, 2015
By Sébastien Jean

Despite the magnitude of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement concluded by the United States, the EU should not heed calls to rush into concluding ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks under the Obama administration at any cost, and focus instead on negotiating a good agreement.

Regulatory coherence is more easily said than done

Post, April 23, 2015
By Sébastien Jean

Regulatory coherence is claimed to be the core of the potential economic stakes in the TTIP. As the 9th Round of Negotiations is being convened in New York City, time has come for discussions to take a more concrete form.

TTIP is about regulatory coherence

Post, December 8, 2014
By Lionel Fontagné, Sébastien Jean

The TTIP has become a full-blown political issue as the two largest economic entities in the world are negotiating a deep integration agreement, going beyond what has been done previously in any agreement except the EU’s Single Market.

WTO: Rethinking the special and differential treatment granted to developing countries

Post, October 8, 2013
By Sébastien Jean

The special and differential treatment granted to developing countries, a key principle in the multilateral trading system, now appears broken-down. Based on a speech given at the WTO Forum, this post reviews -with a focus on agriculture- why this is so and what could be done.

Significant economic gains could be achieved through a transatlantic trade partnership

Post, September 23, 2013
By Lionel Fontagné, Julien Gourdon, Sébastien Jean

CEPII launches its first Policy Brief “Transatlantic Trade: Whither Partnership, Which Economic Consequences?” which examines the stakes and potential impacts of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Challenges ahead for the next WTO DG

Post, May 2, 2013
By Sébastien Jean

The WTO is going through a leadership transition as after 8 years, the incumbent Director-General steps down on September 1, 2013. What are the challenges ahead for Pascal Lamy’s successor? The next DG will certainly have to take the Doha loss and move toward an updated multilateral trading system.

Importing intermediate goods to foster French firms’ productivity and exports

Post, October 15, 2012
By Maria Bas, Vanessa Strauss-Khan

International trade plays a key role in technological diffusion. In a recent work, we show how firms can improve their competitiveness and export performance through importing more varieties of high quality or lower cost intermediate goods.

International migration and the new role of preferential trade agreements

Facts & Figures, July 17, 2012
By Gianluca Orefice

An international organization (uniquely) in charge of managing international migration flows is missing. However recent Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) include migration related provisions able to manage migration flows. Further, the signature of a PTA itself boosts bilateral migration flows.

Natural Resources: a key challenge in regional integration of the Middle East and North Africa region

Post, May 22, 2012
By Julien Gourdon, Céline Carrère, Marcelo Olarreaga

The slow progress of regional integration efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region could be explained by the reluctance of resource-rich countries to deepen trade agreements which hurt them.

Trade liberalization in the services sectors: a promising competitiveness policy for European countries

Post, April 19, 2012
By Cristina Mitaritonna, Matthieu Crozet

In France, like in most Western European countries, the debate on competitiveness is entirely focused on manufacturing industries. The case of services sectors remains in the shadows, even though they undoubtedly are an important source of employment and constitute a clear comparative advantage.

China in the WTO: an assessment

Post, December 22, 2011
By Françoise Lemoine

China joined the WTO in December 2001. China and its partners had been negotiating the conditions of its accession since 1987 with two fundamental goals: integrate China into the global economy and anchor the process of domestic economic reforms and opening up.

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