very detailed Mexican data for 1994-2004, a period of liberalization in US trade policy vis a vis Mexico, mandated by the … North American Free Trade Agreement. Our approach is novel in that we focus on quality, proxied by domestic price premium …

Regional liberalization sweeps the globe like wildfire while multilateral trade talks proceed at a glacial pace. Why … is that multilateralism is too cumbersome for contemporary trade issues. This paper proposes a very different answer …

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in … effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex …

The paper estimates the effect of NAFTA’s rules of origin (ROO) on Mexican access to the US market treating explicitly … the endogenous determination of ROOs. The first equation determines Mexico’s NAFTA (preferential) exports to the US as a …

The last decade has witnessed an explosion in the number of regional trade agreements (RTAs). There seems to be a … RTA then the traditional gains from trade. This paper examines several possible benefits that RTAs may confer on their … examining NAFTA and the Europe Agreements viewed in this light. …

that, at least in the case of NAFTA, preferential market access was quite small, leading us to speculate that these …

constructed for rules of origins under NAFTA and under the single list applying to PANEURO, the new regime applying to all EU … preferential trade agreements. The R-index highlights how identical PSRO have different impacts across countries, and how the …

> the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). First, is there evidence from the past that … to be growth in trade with other regions, and in the share of GDP traded extra-regionally. Would enlargement of NAFTA and … suggests the direct and indirect effects of regional integration agreements (RIAs) on trade and investment have been income …

would incur unnecessary costs. Using EU trade with its GSP and ACP partners, the paper estimates how the utilization of …

This paper estimates the effective market access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel by combining two … of Mexican apparel products compensates for the cost of complying with NAFTA’s rules of origin. We also find that the …