Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/168243 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2017: Alternative Geld- und Finanzarchitekturen - Session: International Trade and Trade Reforms I No. A14-V1
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
We document a hitherto overlooked stylized fact: countries’ external tariff schedules are surprisingly similar. The correlation is particularly striking for countries belonging to the same deep preferential trade agreement (PTA). We show that most of this is due to selection effects rather than to ex post convergence. This has an important implication: In most PTAs, for a vast majority of products, trade deflection is not profitable even in the absence of costly rules of origin.
JEL: 
F10
F13
F15
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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