The Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA will increase import competition for some forest product industries in Alabama …

The influence of data aggregation on applied trade theory may not be generally appreciated. Aggregation can have a … direct impact on the direction of trade, factor intensity, factor abundance, factor substitution, product differentiation …, and intra-industry trade. This paper develops some propositions for applied trade theorists on the effects of aggregation. …

This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level …. While in some industries, complementary effects between both kinds of trade liberalization are observed, in others no …

Preferential trade agreements could lead to a reallocation of resources across sectors and countries. Production …, empirical evidence on South-South trade agreements is limited. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap in the empirical …, and Uruguay over the period 1985-1998. We find that deepened preferential trade liberalization has fostered a reshaping of …