Regional trade agreements: blessing or burden?

By Caroline Freund, Emanuel Ornelas. 2009

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There has been a proliferation of regional trade agreements around the world since the early 1990s. In a survey of the latest theoretical and empirical research on regionalism, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas ask whether we should celebrate or be concerned about this trend.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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The Gains from Market Integration (2015, background): “…allow free trade within the union) and, more generally, preferential trade agreements (in which a region’s trade policy discriminates between outside regions depending onwhether they are a member of a common preferential trade agreement) (see, e.g., the recent survey in Freund & Ornelas 2010).”
Is the WTO Passé (2015, neutral): “101Bagwell and Staiger (1998) and Freund and Ornelas (2010) reach a similar conclusion.”
Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements (2020, background): “9 Fulponi et al. 2011; Piermartini and Budetta 2009; Jackson and Vitikala 2016.”
Feasible mitigation actions in developing countries (2014, background): “Regional trade agreements have been the most popular form 407 of trade liberalization in recent years.(97) Combining them with strong environment provisions, 408 measures to spur technology transfer and capacity building could lower mitigation costs and alleviate 409 concerns of emission leakage for”