Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE REVIEW -- III. EMPIRICAL STRATEGY -- IV. RESULTS -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix I. Compensation Share -- Appendix II. A First Pass at Data: Bivariate Regression Results -- Appendix III. Correlation Matrix of Explanatory Variables -- Appendix...

The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose's (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...