the silent success story of regional integration. Throughout the world, CUs have been superseding earlier FTAs, as new …

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 …

What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but …

granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and …

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 …

of their empirical relevance generated by international economic, monetary, and financial integration …

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 …