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Cheng, I-Hui - 2012

Traditional literature takes gravity variables, regional economic agreement formation, and economy similarity as exogenous variables when discussing the determinants of the bilateral trade flows. This research uses the bilateral trade information from 1986 to 2008 and the common types of trade...

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Exchange Rate Policy and Regional Trade Agreements : A Case of Conflicted Interests?

Pomfret, Richard - 2013

East Asia, however, the desire for exchange rate stability will eventually outweigh the desire to maintain a protectionist … tool. How extensive the pressures will be in East Asia will depend not only on how many countries seriously desire to be in … the more integrated economic area in which Factory Asia operates, but also on their institutional and political readiness …

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Economic Determinants of Regional Trade Agreements Revisited Using Machine Learning

Blöthner, Simon; Larch, Mario - 2021

While traditional empirical models using determinants like size and trade costs are able to predict RTA formation reasonably well, we demonstrate that allowing for machine detected non-linear patterns helps to improve the predictive power of RTA formation substantially. We employ machine...

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The Impacts of Regional Trade Agreements in Force in Europe on Trade in Services

Guillin, Amélie - 2012

Most of countries in the European continent are related to each other by a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) that includes services. The aim of this study is to analyze the pattern of trade in services in Europe. In considering the three main important RTAs in force in Europe, I find that the main...

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Growth and convergence in South-South integration areas : empirical evidence

Sperlich, Stefan; Sperlich, Yvonne - 2012

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Evaluating the contributions of regional trade agreements to governance of service trade

Stephenson, Sherry M.; Robert, Maryse - 2011

services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS …

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Provisions on small and medium-sized enterprises in regional trade agreements

Monteiro, José-Antonio - 2016 - Manuscript date: June 2016

, or transparency. …

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EU-African regional trade agreements as a development tool to reduce EU border rejections

Fiankor, Dela-Dem; Ehrich, Malte; Brümmer, Bernhard - 2016

The integration of developing countries into the world trading system is an important development mechanism to reduce …

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An oligopolistic theory of regional trade agreements

Soegaard, Christian - 2013

Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form...

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A survey of investment provisions in regional trade agreements

Chornyi, Vasyl; Nerushay, Marianna; Crawford, Jo-Ann - 2016 - Manuscript date: June 2016

The liberalization and protection of investment flows has become an increasingly indispensable pillar of economic integration. The objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the ways in which RTAs achieve such liberalization and protection. To this end, we have...

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