During the last decade, many scientific articles have been published in political science about the formation of BRICS and the therewith related possible change of the international order.However, this topic has attracted much less attention in the economics literature. Based on a selective...

Since the end of the Cold War the number of free trade and preferential partnership agreements has been increasing worldwide. A large part of these treaties are made between developing- and emergent countries. This dissertation studies the questions whether so called South-South RIAs (regional...

How do leading economists on growth and trade assess the potentials of the BRICS alliance? This note summarizes the survey results among international experts in the course of the 20th Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade (DEGIT) conference, held in Geneva in 2015. The statistical...

Some of the new trade and economic geography theory findings are quite critical concerning the so called South-South-agreements. Main criticisms are that they would lead to increasing income disparity by similar production structures, agglomeration and trade diversion at the expense of the...

It is empirically investigated whether South-South-regional integration areas such as the MERCOSUR three world regions in question are considered: Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa. A comprehensive empirical study is done by different panel data analyses based on data from at least one...

Some of the new trade and economic geography theory findings are quite critical concerning the so called South-South-agreements. This study contributes to this discussion by means of an empirical analysis of a representative set of South-South integration areas. Sperlich and Sperlich (2011) have...