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Economic integration agreements, border effects, and distance elasticities in the gravity equation

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2013

Using a novel common econometric specification, we examine the measurement of three important effects in international trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration agreements, national borders, and bilateral distance....

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...

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Should TPP be formed? : on the potential economic, governance, and conflict-reducing impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 3, pp. 279-309

. With China now having formed 12 FTAs and negotiating five new ones (including a sixteen member Asia-Pacific FTA), the …

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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019

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)....

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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021

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Protection or protectionism : the effect of technical regulations on input sourcing

Iodice, Irene; Reverdy, Camille - 2025

This paper examines how EU Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) reshape firms’ global supply chains, extending Grossman et al. (2024) to incorporate adaptation costs between sourcing partners. To test the model’s predictions, we construct a novel dataset linking EU TBTs to French firm-level...

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Trade integration and the fragility of trade relationships : a product level perspective ; conference paper

Besedeš, Tibor; Nitsch, Volker - 2013 - Preliminary

We investigate the effect of economic integration agreements on the stability of international trade at the 4 digit SITC level. Using annual trade data for over 180 countries from 1962 to 2005 we examine how economic integration agreements affect the length of trade relationships, the volume at...

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Deep integration and trade : UK firms in the wake of Brexit

Freeman, Rebecca; Garofalo, Marco; Longoni, Enrico; … - 2025

How does dismantling deep integration affect international trade? This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of disintegration by estimating the impact of Brexit on goods trade by UK firms. The UK’s exit from the EU’s single market and customs union in January 2021 led to an...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...

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ASEAN economic integration through trade and foreign direct investment : long-term challenges

Kawai, Masahiro; Naknoi, Kanda - 2015

joining East Asia's supply chains. While proceeding to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015, ASEAN … inward FDI. The paper concludes that in the long run ASEAN should aim to further integrate itself with the rest of Asia and … the world (through a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific and an Asia-Europe FTA), while substantially deepening its …

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