Do Economic Integration Agreements Actually Work? Issues in Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism

By S. Baier, J. Bergstrand, Peter H. Egger, Patrick A. McLaughlin. 2008

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects (2017, methodology): “20 The estimated effect of EU membership on trade also varies across different specifications in Baier et al. (2008).”
• Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration (2017, background): “Baier et al.’s estimates imply that leaving the EU and joining the European Free Trade Association would reduce the UK’s trade with EU members by 25 percent.5 Assuming no trade diversion with non-EU countries and using Feyrer’s (2009) estimate that the elasticity of income per capita to trade lies b”
• Do we really know that trade agreements increase trade? (2014, result): “Interestingly, many estimates are similar to those obtained after correcting for endogeneity bias in Baier et al. (2007, 2008). Both the present study as well as Baier et al. (2007) find positive effects for CACM and small or insignificant effects for agreements among the US, Canada and Israel, betw”
• The cost of non-Europe, revisited* (2019, unknown): “The preferred EU e ects estimate of Baier et al. (2014) and Eicher and Henn (2011) are other examples nding that the deep integration agreements such as the EU have a much larger trade impact than standard RTAs. A number of older papers (Carrere (2006), Baier et al. (2008)) have found converging est”
• The World Trade Network (2011, unknown): “Another debated point that can be addressed using NA is whether international trade is regionalised, or in other words organised around trading blocs, possibly formed through regional agreements (see Pomfret, 2007; Baier et al., 2008).”
• The impact of Brexit on foreign investment in the UK (2016, background): “By comparison, Baier et al (2008) estimate that EU membership leads to trade with other EU members increasing by a quarter or more (compared with EFTA membership).”