Why Do Economies Enter into Preferential Agreements on Trade in Services? Assessing the Potential for Negotiated Regulatory Convergence in Asian Services Markets

More than one-third of the World Trade Organization-notified services trade agreements that were in effect between January 2008 and August 2015 involved at least one South or Southeast Asian trading partner. Drawing on Baier and Bergstrand's (2004) determinants of preferential trade agreements...

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Main Authors: Pierre Sauvé, Anirudh Shingal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2016-03-01
Series:Asian Development Review
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ADEV_a_00061