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Albertin, Giorgia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper investigates whether a regional bloc would enlarge or remain stagnant in size using a model where enlargement is the endogenous outcome of the interaction between the supply of and demand for membership. We show that a maximum size of the bloc exists beyond which the regional...

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Are Regional Trade Agreements in Asia Stumbling or Building Blocks? Some Implications for the Mekong-3 Countries

Tumbarello, Patrizia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of turning into an unmanageable "noodle bowl" in the future? The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this question. The results show that membership in the Asian RTAs...

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Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa; Past Performance and the Way Forward

Yang, Yongzheng; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries limit both intra- and extraregional trade. Small market size, poor transport...

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Preferential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region

Feridhanusetyawan, Tubagus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and … of these PTAs, discusses their characteristics and implementation, and assesses their potential effects. Realizing the … potential gains from Asia-Pacific PTAs requires a commitment to liberalize sensitive sectors, to maintain consistent provisions …

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Performance of Western Hemisphere Trading Blocs; A Cost-Corrected Gravity Approach

Croce, Enzo; Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo; Zhu, Feng - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

We study the performance of the four Western Hemisphere trading blocs during the period 1978-2001. For the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration outweighed trade diversion; for MERCOSUR, increased integration and trade diversion went hand in hand; for the Central American...

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Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited; Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects

Papageorgiou, Chris; Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their … PTAs on trade flows we show that the analysis must be comprehensive: it must control for Trade Creation and Diversion as … well as all possible PTAs. Several prominent control variables are also shown to be robustly related to Trade Creation …

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Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An inquiry Into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations

Das, Gouranga Gopal - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium...

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Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession; Which is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the Cis

Tumbarello, Patrizia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for some member countries of the Commonwealth of...

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Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA

Mayda, Anna Maria; Steinberg, Chad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade...

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One Money,one Market; A Revised Benchmark

Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

and are generally lower than those of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Our revised benchmark can be used as a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528645

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