Bourriaque, Ryan Joseph, B.A. Louisiana State University, 2005Master of Science, Summer Commencement, 2008Major: Agricultural EconomicsSpatial Economics of the Louisiana Wetland Mitigation Banking IndustryThesis directed by Assistant Professor Rex CaffeyPages in thesis, 86. Words in abstract,...

This study examines trade creation and trade diversion effects in the EUSAFTA using the standard gravity model of bilateral trade flows. The estimation of the gravity equation was carried out using the OLS analysis. In order to ascertain the overall trade creation and trade diversion effects...