Different Paths to Free Trade: The Gains from Regionalism

By Caroline Freund. 2000

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Third-country effects on the formation of free trade agreements (2010, methodology): “…Staiger (2004) obtain the "concession erosion" e¤ect using a perfectly competitive generalequilibrium model, while we show the same result in a standard Cournot setting (see Krishna, 1998; Freund, 2000; Ornelas, 2005; Saggi, 2006; Goyal and Joshi, 2006 for other FTA studies using Cournot models).”
Is the WTO Passé (2015, unknown): “Chang, Won and L. Alan Winters.”
Regional trade agreements: blessing or burden? (2009, unknown): “Cadot and de Melo (2008), in a summary of the literature, note that compliance costs associated with meeting ROO requirements range from 3 to 5 percent of final product prices, largely offsetting the small preferences allotted in developed countries.”
In search of WTO trade effects: Preferential trade agreements promote trade strongly, but unevenly (2011, unknown): “In the case of the EU, it is likely that the large market and the strong harmonization efforts allowed firms to overcome trade fixed costs that subsequently led to strong trade creation between both member and non-member countries (e.g. Freund, 2000; Melitz, 2003).”
Number 693 December 2000 ON THE EFFECT OF THE INTERNET ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE (2000, background): “Freund (2000) finds that trade links between original members of the European Union are highly persistent, and hypothesizes that sunk costs are likely to blame.”
Has the Internet Increased Trade? Developed and Developing Country Evidence (2006, methodology): “In addition to estimating the base model and a model similar to the country level model, we also added the Internet variables to the base model in Rose (2004b), which includes additional variables representing a variety of other characteristics, including trade agreements, physical characteristics, ”
Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious (2012, unknown): “Freund (2000), working with a BranderKrugman like model where every firm sells to every market, shows that any two nations would gain from forming an FTA as long as the MFN tariff was below the optimal tariff level.”