Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs … have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense … of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form into regional trade agreements or global free trade in a framework …

We develop a theory of economic disintegration that features both endogenously formed tax and trade policies. We show … international trade institutions. Moreover, we set up a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium trade model with …

analysis of the geography of trade relations (i.e. the size, the composition and the direction of exports and imports flows …) between the EU and the ENP countries. The findings of the paper illustrate the emerging patterns of trade relations among the …

Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and … alternative channels of interdependence, in particular that of trade versus financial openness. We find that cross … either directly the evolution of trade costs over time or the sensitivity of trade flows to distance in gravity models. In …

externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA … the several forms of PTAs, we focus on free trade areas (FTAs), where each member country chooses its external tariffs … independently. We build a three-country oligopolistic trade model by incorporating the endogenous determination of standards by …

During the last century there has been a huge reduction in trade costs at almost every spatial scale impulsed not only … by technological advances applied to transport and communication systems, but also by the spread of regional trade … agreements and other related schemes. This estringent fall has provoked an explosion of physical, trade and investment …

improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains from any trade policy. With symmetric countries, the optimal import tax … or export subsidy is positive but smaller than the coalition's implicit emission price. With a linear … by] the increased trade distortions. The unique stable coalition consists of three or more countries, including the grand …

and Morocco. Its role in the international trade of Algeria has never been object of evaluation study. In line with the … international trade, we propose in this paper to assess the impact of Algerian immigration networks on Algerian exports. It is clear … that immigrants represent an opportunity for diversification and intensification of Algerian exports. However, the …