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The European Union and the Mercosur are presently negotiating a Free Trade Area, and that may improve the conditions of access of Latin American exports to the European market. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is not favorable to Mercosur...
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The European Union (EU) is one of the most successful integration arrangements in the world. However, the disintegration in Europe through Brexit is puzzling. This article aims to clarify this dilemma by addressing the following questions: Was the former French President, de Gaulle, right that...
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Galvanized by the devastation of the Second World War, European countries achieved a historically unprecedented and unparalleled level of regional economic integration in the postwar period. Intensive cooperation between the two biggest powers of continental Western Europe, France, and Germany,...
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The decision of the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU) is unprecedented, especially considering the recent trend in the global economy toward economic integration. There is a multitude of research concerning the implications of economic integration; however, research in the...
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The purpose of this study is to fill an existing gap in the literature by addressing the following research question: what are the major determinants of China's regional economic integration with the Greater Mekong Sub-regional countries (GMS), namely; Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and...
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This paper investigates bilateral trade flows and the level of openness across ECOWAS-15 nations for the period of 1981-2013 using Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood (PPML), fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR). Comparing the results, the...
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The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra … estimates show tariffs are not a constraint on ECOWAS countries' export supply. From these results, we conclude that the low … export diversification of ECOWAS economies remains the major constraint on their capacity to supply the intra-regional market …
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, production networks, and investment activities? What are the enabling factors and obstacles to SME participation in regional …
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The analysis of business cycle synchronization levels has become a key point in the discussion of the processes of international economic integration. Economists show a particular interest in analyzing the frequency of processes of business cycle convergence and divergence (decoupling) in the...
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-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from …
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