The phenomenon of international production sharing, in which production is broken up into smaller bits of tasks and locate them in separate places, has been widely observed globally in the last several decades. While it has been getting a lot of attention, it is still not clear how to define and...

This thesis discusses two important aspects of global trading environment that has taken place during the last two decades, namely: the marketdriven regionalization of production and trade, and the growing importance of formal regionalism in the form of regional trade agreements (RTAs). In the...