Expert knowledge status quo in the Internet provided public debate on Free Trade Agreements. Meta analysis of Polish literature

Abstract

Recently the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have been drawing public attention enormously being affected by new waves of political populism, alterglobalisation, and some other tendencies redefining the patterns in the world economic ties. From the European perspective, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have brought "on board" serious public concerns about environmental protection, food quality, job security, and citizen rights. Donald Trump openly criticizes the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) calling it "the single worst trade deal ever approved in this [US] country". The main purpose of this paper is to define expert views on FTAs in a measurable way. We want to capture the expert dissemination effect in Polish language Internet sources. Defining a mismatch between social perception and expert knowledge is the main aim of our research project on "Social expectations concerning FTAs: perception versus reality", to which this paper, as we believe can contribute, at the same time contributing into diagnosing and analysing actual public debate on FTAs in Poland.

Trade and economic integration dominants in North America countries’ interaction

“…works of Root (2000), Makogon (2017), Dzialo et al, 2017, Gawronska-Nowak et al, 2019. The issues of NAFTA creation and development, and of problematic aspects of Canada-USA trade relations are considered by such foreign economists as: Peterson (2013), Kim (2018), Fergusson (2014), Hufbauer (2005), -and by domestic ones: Bilan (2009), Vesela (2016), Yatsenko et al, (2017Yatsenko et al, ( , 2019, Moroz et al, (2017), However, due to negotiations on improvement in conditions of trade and economic relationship, which have resulted in signing of USMCA (ex-NAFTA), this topic is gaining actuality.…”

What drives international trade? Robust analysis for the European Union

“…All those theoretical considerations were met with an extensive strain of empirical research striving for their verifications. To enlist just a few, researchers were investigating the impact of: exchange rates (Bahmani-Oskooee, 1986;Brada & Méndez, 1988), exchange rate variability (Arizeet al, 2003;Klein & Shambaugh, 2006;Miron et al, 2013), factor endowments (Baldwin, 1971;Bowen et al, 1987;Staiger, 1988;Davis & Weinstein, 2001;Debaere, 2003), gravity variables (McCallum, 1995;Anderson & van Wincoop, 2003;Wang et al, 2010), free trade agreements (Frankel et al, 1995;Baier & Bergstrand, 2007;Beck et al, 2019;Gawrońska-Nowak et al, 2019), currency unions (Rose & van Wincoop, 2001;Frankel & Rose, 2002;Glick & Rose, 2002;Beck, 2014), institutions (de Groot et al, 2004;Kuncic, 2012), cultural factors (Carrère & Masood, 2018;Egger & Lassmann, 2018;Egger & Toubal, 2018).…”