We investigate trade integration between members of the EU, NAFTA and Mercosur. The paper evaluates the ease of access … to each of those markets from each other based on a benchmark consisting of trade within countries. This methodology … integrated zones of this Atlantic Triangle. We evaluate in particular the possible trade effects of free trade agreements between …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional trade flows. Results show that difficulties faced by developing … still have an influence on trade patterns, they do not seem to explain an important part of the border effect. Last, our … expected ranking between their respective trade impact …