. Closer integration can bring converging industrial development to the union. A hub-and-spoke arrangement favours location in …

Countries on trade in manufactures. It starts by discussing the principal predictions of economic theory, establishing a … framework for measuring integration effects, and sketching the approaches used to study integration effects within the EEC. It … imports had risen on account of integration by around 8 billion pound sterling by 1979, almost all of which was trade creation …

Regional integration is on the rise again, despite its apparent failure among developing countries in the past. The … integration presents certain advantages including enhanced bargaining power and market access. We then turn to institutional … aspects of regional integration, and point out that integration enforces arbitrage in institutions as well as in markets for …

regional integration arrangements (RIAs) on trade policy towards non-members in a three-good, three-country model. We explore …) with varying degrees of economic and political integration, we show how increasingly deep integration, both within an FTA …

This paper explores the links between international trade theory and the practice of trade and industrial policy in … unilateral, multilateral and customs union contexts. Finally, the paper suggests that the theory of strategic trade policy does …

desirability of taxing imports more heavily than domestically produced goods is established. Customs union theory is analysed by …