, revealing that deepening existing agreements (the intensive margin of regional integration) could boost world trade by 5 percent …This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We … cluster 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimate the trade elasticity for the different …

Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS … different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" components of RTAs on the service trade . The results of the empirical … "service" RTA) can increase the bilateral service trade between the trading-pairs significantly. (2) almost all the "GATS …

Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS … different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" components of RTAs on the service trade . The results of the empirical … "service" RTA) can increase the bilateral service trade between the trading-pairs significantly. (2) almost all the "GATS …

Economic Partnership Agreement (EU-SADC EPA) stemming from changes in trade flows from the six members of the SADC (Botswana … extensive margins of trade resulting from tariff reductions, as a consequence of the EU-SADC EPA initiative. The impact on the … intensity of trade is estimated using a Difference-in-Differences (DID) estimation, controlling for both country and product …

This study employs a structural gravity approach to analyse the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on …