Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic
Special economic zones (SEZ), one of the most important instruments of industrial policy used in developing countries, often impose export share requirements (ESR). That is, firms located in SEZ are required to export more than a certain share of their output to enjoy a wide array of incentives--a p...
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| author | Defever, Fabrice Riaño, Alejandro Reyes, Jose-Daniel Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo |
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| description | Special economic zones (SEZ), one of the most important instruments of industrial policy used in developing countries, often impose export share requirements (ESR). That is, firms located in SEZ are required to export more than a certain share of their output to enjoy a wide array of incentives--a practice prohibited by the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. In this paper we exploit the staggered removal of ESR across products and over time in the SEZ of the Dominican Republic--a reform driven by external commitments to comply with WTO disciplines on subsidies--to evaluate how ESR effect export performance at the product- and firm-level. Using customs data on international trade transactions from the period 2006 to 2014, we find that making the Dominican SEZ regime WTO-compliant made SEZ more attractive locations for exporters to be based in. The reform, however, did not have a significant effect on the country's exports nor on the share of export value originating from SEZ. |
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| spelling | nottingham-503962020-05-04T19:40:59Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50396/ Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic Defever, Fabrice Riaño, Alejandro Reyes, Jose-Daniel Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo Special economic zones (SEZ), one of the most important instruments of industrial policy used in developing countries, often impose export share requirements (ESR). That is, firms located in SEZ are required to export more than a certain share of their output to enjoy a wide array of incentives--a practice prohibited by the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. In this paper we exploit the staggered removal of ESR across products and over time in the SEZ of the Dominican Republic--a reform driven by external commitments to comply with WTO disciplines on subsidies--to evaluate how ESR effect export performance at the product- and firm-level. Using customs data on international trade transactions from the period 2006 to 2014, we find that making the Dominican SEZ regime WTO-compliant made SEZ more attractive locations for exporters to be based in. The reform, however, did not have a significant effect on the country's exports nor on the share of export value originating from SEZ. Wiley 2018-06-14 Article PeerReviewed Defever, Fabrice, Riaño, Alejandro, Reyes, Jose-Daniel and Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo (2018) Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic. Economica . ISSN 1468-0335 Special economic zones; Export share requirements; Export subsidies; Agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures; Dominican Republic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecca.12276 doi:10.1111/ecca.12276 doi:10.1111/ecca.12276 |
| spellingShingle | Special economic zones; Export share requirements; Export subsidies; Agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures; Dominican Republic Defever, Fabrice Riaño, Alejandro Reyes, Jose-Daniel Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic |
| title | Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic |
| title_full | Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic |
| title_fullStr | Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic |
| title_short | Special economic zones and WTO compliance: evidence from the Dominican Republic |
| title_sort | special economic zones and wto compliance: evidence from the dominican republic |
| topic | Special economic zones; Export share requirements; Export subsidies; Agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures; Dominican Republic |
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