Kpodar, Kangni; Imam, Patrick - 2015 - ed
This paper assesses how regional trade agreements (RTAs) impact growth volatility on a worldwide sample of 170 … countries with data spanning the period 1978-2012. Notwithstanding concerns that trade openness through RTAs can heighten … benefits outweigh the costs as RTAs are consistently associated with lower growth volatility, after controlling for trade …