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...

This paper discusses the problem of testing misspecifications in semiparametric regression models for a large family of econometric models under rather general conditions on not further specified semiparametric estimators. We focus on mainly three issues that typically arise in econometrics....