Analysis of Factors Influencing the Accession to the GPA---Logit and Probit Model Approach

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10.2991/emcs-16.2016.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

GPA; Government Procurement; Logit Model; Probit Model; Influential Factors

Abstract

As one of WTO plurilateral agreement, WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) have 44 parties now. China wants to join the agreement, and is on the actively negotiating. According to the IMD Competitiveness Yearbook released 1996 to 2014 GPA members’ relevant economic data, this paper using Logit and Probit Mode to analysis the influential factors to access GPA. The empirical study suggested that GDP, GDP per capital, government consumption expenditure, and balance of payment and government transparency have positive and significant influence on accession. According to the result, we put forward the relevant policy suggestion on China’s accession to GPA.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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