Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 197-216

  Francois, Joseph ^a   Hoekman, Bernard ^b   Manchin, Miriam ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EXPORT; MULTILATERAL TRADE; OECD; TARIFF STRUCTURE; TRADE LIBERALIZATION;

EID: 33745713906     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhj010     Document Type: Article

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