Regional Economics and Economic Growth focus on the question of trade leads to a greater concentration of economic activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore this paper studies the regional convergence from trade in Mexico after NAFTA....

This article evaluates from the Global Dimension of Regional Integration Model (GDRI - MODEL) developed by Estrada (2004) which the level of regional integration in the year of 2007 for the Common Market of the South - MERCOSUR, considering Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (Members of the...

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade...

Based on the gravity model of international trade, this paper initially analyzes North Korea's international trade pattern, which tends to follow the prediction of the gravity model: a positive relationship between trade and trading partners' GDP, and negative relationship between trade and...