International Transport Services (ITS) play an important role in influencing international trade flows. This paper … international trade very much the same way tariff liberalization does. From a political economy viewpoint, a unilateral …

multilateral trade liberalization. Using a three- country political economy model with imperfect competion, it shows how … regionalism can undermine support for multilateralism. Discriminatory trade policies alter the balance of gains and losses that … multilateral trade liber - alization, declines. …

Preferential trade agreements could lead to a reallocation of resources across sectors and countries. Production …, empirical evidence on South-South trade agreements is limited. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap in the empirical …, and Uruguay over the period 1985-1998. We find that deepened preferential trade liberalization has fostered a reshaping of …