Accounting for the New Gains from Trade Liberalization
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 249
70 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2017
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Accounting for the New Gains from Trade Liberalization
Accounting for the New Gains from Trade Liberalization
Gains from Trade with Flexible Extensive Margin Adjustment
Date Written: January 31, 2017
Abstract
We measure the "new" gains from trade reaped by Canada as a result of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA). We think of the "new" gains from trade of a country as all welfare effects pertaining to changes in the set of firms serving that country as emphasized in the so-called "new" trade literature. To this end, we first develop an exact decomposition of the gains from trade which separates "traditional" and "new" gains. We then apply this decomposition using Canadian and US micro data and and that the "new" welfare effects of CUSFTA on Canada were negative.
Keywords: Gains from Trade, Trade Liberalization, CUSFTA
JEL Classification: F10, F12, F14
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