intraregional trade is growing within NAFTA and that NAFTA has displaced trade with the rest of the world. NAFTA has served to boost … trade significantly among its members rather than with the rest of the world. Countries participating in NAFTA have moved … toward a lower degree of relative openness in agrifood trade with the rest of the world. …

model estimation and G2PM for log-linear gravitymodel estimation. Exemplarily the estimators are applied to intra …

specification a la Feenstra (2002) with three emerging estimation methods: the standard Heckman correction for selection bias, to … goals: First it provides estimates of the elasticity of substitution obtained using the four estimation techniques; Second …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

subsectors, at least not given the used identification strategy. This could be due to the fact that this theory regards the …

. Imports from the rest of the world drop for most netimporter SADC countries, whereas trade with the SADC region generally … tariff rates, although gains come at major costs to regional producers. Imports from both the region and the world are also …

Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay accounted for 94 percent of the $30 billion of world soybean and meal exports, but supplied … suggest that a combined Mercosur and Andean customs union under either a high or a low world soybean product price scenario …

Común del Sur/MERCOSUR), an economic and political paradigm change towards the integration in the world economy and the use …