We address three themes on the New Regionalism. First, the prominent analogy to a “spaghetti bowl” of economic integration agreements (EIAs) should be replaced by reference to a « market » for EIAs. We suggest a systematic economic framework for analyzing « competitive...

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

Despite the world-wide spread of economic blocs following the Great Depression, Japan sought to find trade partners outside of its own bloc and to maintain a relationship with some foreign blocs, in particular maintaining a connection with the British Commonwealth and the Sterling bloc. The...

Since the early nineties, there has been a veritable boom in the market for all sorts of trade agreements, from bilateral to plurilateral ones, and leading to deep or shallow integration. This boom might at least in part be explained by newcomers in the race. Certainly by the European Union,...

Cet article presente une evaluation des effets du programme du Marche unique sur les pays non membres de l’Union europeenne, en particulier les pays en developpement. Il propose une revue de la litterature theorique et empirique sur l’impact de l’integration economique pour ces pays non...

L'UE et le Mercosur negocient actuellement un accord de libre-echange. En fait, la Politique Commerciale Commune est caracterisee par une "hierarchie des preferences commerciales" dans laquelle la position du Mercosur n'est pas favorable, ce qui explique le faible volume d'echanges bilateraux....

This paper aims to reassess the impact of Vietnam's accession to the WTO using a quantitative computable genera equilibrium (CGE) approach. First, a recursive dynamic approach helps to better handle the effects of the commitments in the context of a rapid economic growth. Second, thanks to the...

The emergence of China has raised some doubts concerning the possibility for new Asian countries to take off and join the group of emerging countries. This paper addresses this question in the case of Vietnam, which has been following China's path closely and very successfully during the last...

MAcMaps est une mesure bilaterale et desagregee de l'acces au marche qui a ete construite pour integrer les instruments majeurs de protection (droits ad valorem et specifiques, droits anti-dumping, prohibitions, quotas tarifaires, normes) au niveau le plus detaille (SH 10) et en tenant compte de...

This paper analyzes the impact on Mercosur of a free trade area in the Americas (FTAA) and a free trade area with the EU. The results show that trade liberalization generates substantial economic gains for Mercosur, although the FTAA option is slightly inferior to that of the FTA with the EU....