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

This paper examines to what extent Eastern Europe trade reorientation towards the West has been driven by market forces … versus policies for regional integration. Hierarchical cluster analysis based on bilateral trade intensity reveals the … convergence of regional trade structures to the pre- World- War II pattern. Estimates of the expected trade pattern of Eastern …

The bilateral trade flows between Canada and the US have grown rapidly in the 1990s. Are they evidence of an emerging … North American trading bloc? A gravity model of trade finds that while economic size and proximity can explain much of the … substantial trade between Canada and the US, the US bias in Canada’s merchandise trade has grown since the formation of the Canada …

-regional trade. The Constant Market Shares (CMS) method is commonly to examine empirically the countries’ export performance. This … integrations in the beginning 1990-s caused the change in trade pattern. However, the change in trade pattern only happened in the …

This paper analyzes the trade creation and trade diversion effects of the regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Asia and … their effects on intra-regional trade flows using annual trade data for the period 1980-2009. The research will attempt to … achieve the following objectives: (a) analyze the major RTAs in Asia and their effects on intra-regional trade flows. (b) use …

According to the conventional home-market effect, free trade tends to shrink the market share for a small economy in … level of each firm, and an indirect effect through a change of survival firms after trade. Based on theoretical results we …

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 …

-industrial trade in the period 1980- 1997. After accounting for size distance and competitiveness effects, the Andean Community … preferential trade agreements had a significant effect on the reference products but only a marginal effect on the differentiated … products, in particular capital-intensive goods. Mercosur preferential trade agreements had a significant positive effect only …

The slow pace of multilateral negotiations has given a greater impetus to regional trade arrangements (RTA) as … countries are eager to take advantage of welfare enhancing trade creation effect of trade liberalization. At the same time, this … approach raises concerns as due their discriminatory nature, RTAs lead to welfare reducing trade diversion from third countries …