Erschienen in:Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper ; No. RSC 2021/48
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1 Online-Ressource (31 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3827922
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 2021 erstellt
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The EU’s common commercial policy is used as an instrument to realize its values in EU trading partners, reflected in the inclusion of sustainable trade and development chapters in EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs). In this paper we ask if including non-trade provisions (NTPs) in EU PTAs has a systematic positive effect on non-trade outcomes in partner countries. We analyze the relationship between bilateral trade flows, the coverage of NTPs in EU PTAs and the performance of EU partner countries on several non-trade outcome variables using synthetic control methods. We find no robust evidence of a causal effect of including NTPs in EU PTAs on indicators of non-trade outcomes