Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2013
agreements, national borders, and bilateral distance. First, recent studies focusing on precise and unbiased estimates of effects … of economic integration agreements (EIAs) on members’ trade may be biased upward owing to inadequate control for … phase-ins of agreements, lagged terms-of-trade effects, reverse causality, various estimation techniques, disaggregation …