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‘New-Age’ Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains: An Empirical Analysis

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  • Kalpana Tokas

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This article analyses the impact of the ‘depth’ of new-age preferential trade agreements (PTAs) signed by nations on value-added trade as well as trade in final and intermediate goods carried out between them. This objective of this article goes beyond the black-boxing of a PTA through a dummy and aims to focus on the ‘depth’ of a PTA as measured by its provisions and content. For this purpose, we construct an intensive panel data set. The data set spans across 6 years (3-year intervals across 2000–2015) and is constructed on a dyadic (country pair) level for 61 countries and 110 PTAs across the world, using the Trade in Valued Added (TiVA) Database from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Content of Deep Trade Agreements database from World Bank. Further, we construct two indices for measuring the ‘depth’ of the PTAs based on their content. Our study uses augmented gravity equation with three-way fixed effects, namely country pair, exporter time and importer time, for estimating the results. Our results indicate that the ‘depth’ of a PTA significantly affects trade in final goods, intermediate goods and value-added trade, and the impact is highest for trade in value added. We also observe that PTA with greater number of provisions has a higher impact on trade in final goods, intermediate goods as well as trade in value added.

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  • Kalpana Tokas, 2024. "‘New-Age’ Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains: An Empirical Analysis," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 25(4), pages 1002-1025, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:25:y:2024:i:4:p:1002-1025
    DOI: 10.1177/09721509211006867
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