economic integration encourages governments to take steps to resolve conflicts and vice versa, creating a virtuous circle of …

integration benchmark which consists of the steady state production equilibrium characterized by free trade and perfect factor … economic integration in 2009 are remarkably close across regions. For example, we calculate that economic integration in the …

that economic integration (and the accompanying liberalization of trade flows) will lead to an erosion of working … between labor standards and economic integration in the European Union (EU) and, in particular, investigate the following …, and second whether there has been a quot;race to the bottomquot; of standards across countries with deeper integration. We …

– horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of … investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade integration by estimating the magnitude and evolution of the home … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …

of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance …. This trade integration measure is consistent with a broad range of recent trade models including the Anderson and van … such as Technical Barriers to Trade. Trade integration is generally lower for countries that opted out of the Euro or did …

size of the union enlargement leads to deeper integration, whereas beyond that size further enlargement implies less …

trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration … of economic integration agreements (EIAs) on members’ trade may be biased upward owing to inadequate control for …

prospect of such closer integration provide sufficient economic benefits to encourage progress in democratization in key …

firms but they incur in a positive cost of public funds. First, we show that market integration is welfare improving if and …

This paper investigates the determinants of the different forms taken by regional integration in different parts of the … world. This raises the issue of the relationship between economic and political integration. The theoretical model shows …