, revealing that deepening existing agreements (the intensive margin of regional integration) could boost world trade by 5 percent …This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We … cluster 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimate the trade elasticity for the different …

Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all … two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate the time-varying probability for a country pair to sign a trade …

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union …-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade … involving SSA countries. The main objective is to find out if EU trade preferences and regional trade agreements within SSA had …