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Can South-South Trade Liberalisation Stimulate North-South Trade?

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  • Fugazza, Marco
  • Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric

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This paper uses a combination of Ethier (1982) and Melitz's (2003) models to show that liberalizing trade among developing countries, so-called South-South trade, could contribute to improve the access to international markets of developing countries' would-be exporters. Lower trade barriers among developing countries has the effect of lowering the price of intermediate inputs and eventually allows exporters in those countries to serve international markets. We also compare unilateral and multilateral South-South trade liberalization and find that the latter unambiguously reduces the price of intermediates in all participating countries, whereas the former has ambiguous effects.

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Paper provided by C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers in its series CEPR Discussion Papers with number 5699.

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Keywords: input-output linkages; market access; South-South trade; value chain;

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  3. Forlani, Emanuele, 2010. "Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms: does liberalization matter?," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/387038, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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