Fratianni, Michele; Oh, Chang Hoon - In: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009) 16, pp. 1603-1606
We test the relationship between size of regional trade agreement (RTA) and regional trade bias using a gravity equation on a large sample of 143 countries for the period 1980-2003. We find that regional trade bias declines with the size of the club and that three of the four expanding RTAs have...