Going Deep: The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP

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Rahel Aichele

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute

Gabriel J. Felbermayr

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute

Inga Heiland

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute

Date Written: December 30, 2014

Abstract

Since July 2013, the EU and the US have been negotiating a preferential trade agreement (PTA), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and international input-output linkages to quantify its potential economic consequences. We structurally estimate the sectoral trade flow elasticities of trade costs and of existing PTAs. We simulate the trade, value added, and welfare effects of the TTIP, assuming that the agreement would eliminate all transatlantic tariffs and reduce non-tariff barriers as other deep PTAs have. The long-run level of real per capita income would change by 2.12% in the EU, by 2.68% in the US, and by -0.03% in the rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical entities that we investigate. Gross value of EU-US trade could triple, but its value added would grow by substantially less. Moreover, trade diversion effects are more pronounced in value added trade than in gross trade. This signals a deepening of the transatlantic value chain.

Keywords: structural gravity, preferential trade agreements, TTIP

JEL Classification: F130, F140, F170

Suggested Citation

Aichele, Rahel and Felbermayr, Gabriel J. and Heiland, Inga, Going Deep: The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP (December 30, 2014). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5150, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2550180 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2550180

Rahel Aichele

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute ( email )

Gabriel J. Felbermayr (Contact Author)

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute ( email )

Poschinger Str. 5
Munich, 01069
Germany

Inga Heiland

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute ( email )

Poschinger Str. 5
Munich, 01069
Germany

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