Rahman, Mustafizur; Shadat, Wasel Bin; Das, Narayan Chandra - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The present paper investigates the trade creation and trade diversion effects of a number of RTAs, with special focus on the SAFTA, by using a gravity model. Apart from the traditional gravity variables, the model is augmented by some other import variables (e.g. bilateral exchange rate,...