Bensassi, Sami; Sousa, José de; Jarreau, Joachim - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013
This paper studies the implications of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) proliferation. Using counterfactual … estimation, we disentangle the treatment effect of one PTA on members’ trade and real income, from the externalities created by … concurrent trade policy changes. Results, focusing on the MENA region between 2001 and 2007, reveal that the concurrent trade …