This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union …-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade … involving SSA countries. The main objective is to find out if EU trade preferences and regional trade agreements within SSA had …

predictions. The present contribution applies the constrained panel PPML estimator to reconsider the trade creation and trade … diversion effects of regional trade agreements. Results show significant trade creation effects of RTAs ranging in between 8 ….7 and 21.7 percent in 2012, but also point to substantial trade diversion in the range of -14.4 and -5.8 percent. These …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent … explicitly for whether the trade and investment effects are significantly different after PTA formation than before accounts for … investment responds in beachhead' fashion to the trade provisions of PTAs, the trade carried out from those beachheads could …