The effects of the TTIP on EU countries: an ex-ante evaluation.

ABSTRACT. The EU and the US are involved currently in discussions of what is called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Up to now, there have been several attempts to assess the economic impact of the TTIP, both at the EU-wide level and for some of the EU countries. None of th...

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Autores: Villaverde Castro, José|||0000-0002-5393-091X, Maza Fernández, Adolfo Jesús|||0000-0002-7299-3449
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/10907
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/10907
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:TTIP
Trade
EU Countries
Cross-country disparities
Comercio
Países de la UE
Disparidades entre países
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Sumario:ABSTRACT. The EU and the US are involved currently in discussions of what is called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Up to now, there have been several attempts to assess the economic impact of the TTIP, both at the EU-wide level and for some of the EU countries. None of these studies, however, pays any attention to the potential impact of the TTIP on every EU country, which is the main aim of this paper. In a nutshell, the main findings indicate that the effects of the TTIP agreement are going to be small, albeit positive, and not equally distributed. More specifically, the most developed countries tend to be those that, potentially, will undergo a higher increase in their trade with the US, so they are more likely to reap benefits from the TTIP than the less developed countries. This being so, the TTIP will (weakly) increase cross-country disparities.