Regional trade agreements have proliferated in the past two decades while multilateral trade negotiations have stalled … incentive to contribute to the cost of liberalization by signing trade agreements and offering their own market access. I extend … the equilibrium model of endogenous trade liberalization via trade agreements developed by Saggi and Yildiz (2010) to …

Starting with Tinbergen (1962), quantifying the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs) on international trade …

, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than use a dummy variable approach, we compute the impact of individual … relatively small, reflecting the fact that Canadian trade policy was already highly protectionist: trade agreements can have …

This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the … depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest …

This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms’ exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the … depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …

This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We …