HAYAKAWA, Kazunobu; ITO, Tadashi; KIMURA, Fukunari - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2015
This paper empirically decomposes trade creation effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs) into those due to the tariff reduction effects and due to non-tariff barrier (NTB) removal by using the most disaggregated tariff-line level trade data in a large number of countries in the world....