TY - BOOK ID - 134623711 TI - The Value of Deep Trade Agreements in the Presence of Pricing-to-Market AU - Crowley, Meredith A. AU - Han, Lu. AU - Prayer, Thomas. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Competition Policy KW - Competitiveness and Competition Policy KW - Deep Trade Agreement KW - Export Competitiveness KW - Firm Level Data KW - Gravity Model KW - International Economics and Trade KW - Markup Elasticity KW - Mutual Recognition KW - Private Sector Development KW - Rules of Origin KW - Trade and Services KW - Trade Elasticity KW - Trade Policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134623711 AB - Do preferential trade agreements (PTAs) lead to greater market integration, more intense competition and less market power for firms? This paper integrates the detailed data on 257 preferential trade agreements from the World Bank's Deep Trade Agreements (DTA) database with administrative customs datasets of product-level exports by firms from thirteen developing and emerging countries to estimate the responsiveness of firm-level exports, export prices, and destination-specific markups to trade and domestic policy commitments enshrined in deep trade agreements. The findings suggest that both the direct and indirect effects of deep trade agreement provisions on export sales are quantitatively significant. Perhaps more interestingly, the finding of a suggestive evidence of a pro-competitive effect of PTAs. ER -