The Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA will increase import competition for some forest product industries in Alabama …

The influence of data aggregation on applied trade theory may not be generally appreciated. Aggregation can have a … direct impact on the direction of trade, factor intensity, factor abundance, factor substitution, product differentiation …, and intra-industry trade. This paper develops some propositions for applied trade theorists on the effects of aggregation. …

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 …