Chapter 1. NAFTA at 20: Overview and Trade Effects / M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian F. Fergusson -- Chapter 2. NAFTA at 20: North America's Free-Trade Area and Its Impact on Agriculture / Steven Zahniser, Sahar Angadjivand, Tom Hertz, Lindsay Kuberka and Alexandra Santos -- Index

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a number of factors have contributed to this result. Mexican...

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a number of factors have contributed to this result. Mexican...

Three years ago, very few economists would have imagined that one of the newest and fastest growing research areas in international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major countries' economic integration agreements (EIAs)....