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 …

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 …

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 …