Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2016
and macro studies - to understand the impact of trade agreements in the period 1983-1995 for 104 country pairs. The key … advantage of using SCM to address selection bias - one of the persisting issues in trade literature - is that it allows the …-invariant unobserved country characteristics. Using SCM approach, the paper finds that trade agreements can generate substantial gains, on …