Egger, Hartmut; Greenaway, David; Egger, Peter H. - 2006
This paper formulates an empirical model to estimate the impact of endogenous new RTA membership on trade structure … trade and investment costs. In a sample of country-pairs covering mainly the OECD economies we find a particularly strong … effect of endogenous RTAs on intra-industry trade in a difference-in-difference analysis based on matching techniques. We …