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How Close is Asia to Already Being A Trade Bloc?

Li, Chunding - 2014

FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …

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How Big are the Gains from International Financial Integration?

Hoxha, Indrit - 2009

The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...

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The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2003

Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this type of...

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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017

The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...

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Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World

Kleinman, Benny; Liu, Ernest; Redding, Stephen; Yogo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We generalize the closed-economy neoclassical growth model (CNGM) to allow for costly goods trade and capital flows with imperfect substitutability between countries. We develop a tractable, multi-country, quantitative model that matches key features of the observed data (e.g., gravity equations...

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Globalization in historical perspective

Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Taylor, Alan M. (contributor); … - 2003

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Big-Think Regionalism : A Critical Survey

Baldwin, Richard - 2008

Small Think Regionalism focused on the Vinerian question: "Would a nation gain from joining a trade bloc?" Big Think Regionalism considers regionalism's systemic impact on the world trading system, focusing mainly on two questions: "Does spreading regionalism harm world welfare?" and "Does...

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North American Economic Integration and Industry Location

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1998

Does regional economic integration affect the location of economic activity inside countries? In this paper, I discuss recent academic literature on whether the movement towards free trade in North America has influenced the spatial organization of production in Canada, Mexico, or the United...

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Economic Integration and Convergence : U.S. Regions, 1840-1987

Kim, Sukkoo - 1997

Despite the recent inroads made by models of interregional trade based on external" economies, the analysis of the long-run trends in U.S. regional specialization in agriculture manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, services, and all economic activities indicate that" these trends are...

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Large Countries, Small Countries, and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs

Casella, Alessandra - 1995

Are there systematic forces such that countries of different sizes participating in a free trade bloc gain differently from the entry of new members? If economies of scale imply that firms located in large countries enjoy lower costs, then the gains from enlarging the bloc will fall...

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