The race towards preferential trade agreements in services: How much market access is really achieved?

Roy, Martin; Marchetti, Juan A.; Lim, Aik Hoe

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511494543.004

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“…3 This expanded dataset covers 2 additional PTAs from the dataset used for the WTR 2011. 4 For further discussion on services PTAs, see, for example: WTO (2011); Miroudot, Sauvage and Sudreau (2010); Mattoo and Sauvé (2010); Marchetti and Roy (2008); Fink and Molinuevo (2008a); Fink and Molinuevo (2008b); Roy, Marchetti and Lim (2008); Roy, Marchetti and Lim (2007). 5 Liberalization commitments are also central to determining whether services PTAs comply with Article V of the GATS.…”

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Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements

2011

WTO Working Papers

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Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on services have proliferated since 2000. This working paper briefly presents the expansion of the dataset initially developed in Marchetti and Roy (2008). The data permits to assess the extent to which market access commitments undertaken by WTO Members in PTAs go beyond GATS commitments and offers made in the context of the Doha Development Agenda. The dataset, which covers PTA commitments of 53 WTO Members (counting EU Members States as one),

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Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements

2011

WTO Working Papers

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“…Crucially, the dataset provide not only information about the level of commitments by each country in a PTA but also the level of commitment this country had already made in the negotiations for the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which was negotiated under the auspices of the WTO in 1995. This makes it possible to evaluate the concession of each partner country in an agreement by comparing its commitments in a PTA to the status quo level of liberalization, which the 59 Hoekman (1996); Roy, Marchetti, and Lim (2008); . 60 Haftel (2007).…”

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Bargaining Power in a Globalized World: The Effect of Global Value Chains in Trade Negotiations

Stiller

2023

Bus. Polit.

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What determines the bargaining power of states in international trade negotiations? The literature focuses predominantly on economic strength as the determinant of bargaining power. However, this explanation neglects the reality of modern trade, which is characterized by the globalization of production and high levels of economic interdependence. I argue that this interdependence undermines the effect of economic strength on the bargaining power of states. Specifically, I hypothesize that the effect of economic strength declines when a country's companies rely on inputs for their production from a negotiation partner because they are integrated into global value chains. The more a country's firms are dependent on a partner country, the less that country is able to coerce concessions from the partner country by bringing to bear its economic strength. To test this hypothesis, I use a dataset covering concessions on liberalization of the services sector made by 54 countries in 61 preferential trade agreements. By calculating the relative concessions of each partner, I construct a quantitative indicator of the outcome of trade negotiations. This indicator should reflect the underlying bargaining power of each negotiating party. The results of a regression analysis of these negotiation outcomes mostly support my hypotheses.

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Financial Services Liberalization Under EU FTAs: The Case of Clearing and Settlement Services

Papaconstantinou

2020

Global Politics and EU Trade Policy

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The race towards preferential trade agreements in services: How much market access is really achieved?

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements

Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements

Bargaining Power in a Globalized World: The Effect of Global Value Chains in Trade Negotiations

Financial Services Liberalization Under EU FTAs: The Case of Clearing and Settlement Services

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