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

This paper shows that preferential trade agreements can emerge in an endogenous way. We use a simple international … trade model where govern - ments fix their tariffs in order to maximize social welfare. We find that when countries behave …

trade-related sectors and behind the border. The implications of these reforms are greatly influenced by the starting point …

This paper assesses the impact of Jordan’s substantial trade liberalization over the last two decades. Using a gravity … model, a large country sample, and a long time-series, we estimate the effects of various Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and … the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession on both Jordan’s exports and imports. Overall, we find that the impact has …

East Asian countries have experienced dynamic structural change in regional trade during the 1990s. While intra …-regional trade rapidly progressed within the region after the financial crisis, Asia accounts for a large portion of inter …-regional trade volume, even after the crisis. In this paper, examinations of how interregional and intra-regional trade in five …

This paper analyses the extent to which preferential trade agreements can lead to the substitution of non …

This paper examines the effect of trade barriers on quality levels in a duopoly model for two countries where products … producers converge in case of market integration i.e. when the trade barrier is reduced. If a common minimum quality standard is …