Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Ana … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade … Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members. …