Eichengreen, Barry; Mehl, Arnaud; Chițu, Livia - 2019
We analyze the role of economic and security considerations in bilateral trade agreements. We use the pre-World War I … period to test whether trade agreements are governed by pecuniary factors, such as distance and other frictions measured by … the probability of trade agreements by as much as 20 percentage points. Our estimates imply that were the U.S. to alienate …