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This paper investigates the process of trade integration between the enlarged European Union and the Newly Independent States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan). The paper analyses the evolution of the regional...
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This paper examines the factors affecting bilateral Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) stocks from 14 high income countries to 31 OECD countries over the period 1995-2015. We specifically emphasise the effect of regional trade agreements such as the European Union (EU) and the North American Free...
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American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration outweighed trade diversion; for MERCOSUR, increased integration and …
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This paper models the trade creating and trade diverting effects of the COMESA free trade agreement (FTA) and MERCOSUR … implementations, intra-COMESA FTA trade and intra-MERCOSUR trade are shown to have grown to 171% and 116% above their gravity equation … predicted levels. There is some evidence that MERCOSUR diverted modest levels of trade from non-members but there is no evidence …
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We offer a comprehensive general equilibrium analysis of the EU-Mercosur agreement considering tariffs, quotas, non …
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The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalisation on international labour migration in the enlarged EU in a structural NEG approach. The liberalisation of migration policy would induce additional 1.80 - 2.98 percent of the total EU workforce to change their country of location,...
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This study explores economic interdependence in Mercosur by examining common trends and common cycles among key macro … macroeconomic interdependence in the Mercosur economies is strong. The exchange rates demonstrate co-movement in the long run as … correlations. Our overall findings thus provide justification and optimism for deeper economic integration among Mercosur countries. …
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This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge spillovers in a multi-country model. The...
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Economic integration affects economic development through two main channels: growth and localization of the economic activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this paper their similarities and specificities before...
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We use a model of combined endogenous growth and economic geography to study the impact of regional economic integration on the member and non-member countries of a regional union. Regional integration affects growth through interregional technology diffusion symbolized by knowledge spillovers...
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