Dilip Das addresses one of the most important aspects of international trade, namely regional trade and regional integration agreements. He analyses the latest trends, evaluates the pattern and gauges the progress of regional integration in the global economy over the post-war and contemporary...

This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects accounts for the bulk of the increase in international...