Multilateralism and the endogenous formation of preferential trade agreements

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Trade Creating Free Trade Areas and the Undermining of Multilateralism (2005, unknown): “Different views are held, for example, by Ethier (1998), Freund (2000) and Riezman (1999).”
Interdependent preferential trade agreement memberships: An empirical analysis (2008, result): “18The observation of a positive trend in PTA memberships since the 1950s is consistent with one of the hypotheses in Freund (2000) that falling tariffs render bilateral agreements easier to enforce.”
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.”
Endogenous Free Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System (2005, background): “Ethier (1998) and Freund (2000) consider regional initiatives to be a benign consequence of the success of multilateralism.”
Democracy, Veto Players and the Depth of Regional Integration (2008, background): “Lipsey, 1960; de Melo and Panagariya, 1993; Baldwin and Venables, 1995; Bhagwati and Panagariya, 1996; Krueger, 1997; Krishna et al., 1999; Freund, 2000; Panagariya, 2000; Venables, 2003; Lloyd and MacLaren, 2004).”
Is the WTO Passé (2015, unknown): “Chang, Won and L. Alan Winters.”