Regional integration could be turned into a basic factor for economic growth if combined with a strong economic-development-oriented governmental strategy. The effects of regional integration can be maximized for countries stressing open trade as opposed to creating trade-diverting conditions,...

The “non-market” clause in the just-concluded update of NAFTA, now known as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) would appear to limit Canada's options in terms of negotiating a free trade agreement with China at the present time (given the de facto US veto over a Canada-China agreement...

This paper uses a 53-country 15-industry computable general equilibrium model of trade to analyze the effects of the Korea-China free trade agreement on the Korean economy, the manufacturing sector in particular. The model is based on Yaylaci and Shikher (2014) which uses the Eaton-Kortum...