Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members' International Trade?

By S. Baier, J. Bergstrand. 2007

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1. Yoto V. Yotov
2. Keith Head
3. J. Bergstrand
4. Peter H. Egger
5. D. Novy
6. Thierry Mayer
7. S. Baier
8. Jacques Mélitz

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI: A new institutional analysis (2008, unknown): “FTA Baier and Bergstrand (2007)”
• Who Benefits from Aid for Trade? Comparing the Effects on Recipient versus Donor Exports (2014, methodology): “Finally, we account for WTO membership (WTOit), by drawing on data from Baier and Bergstrand (2007) and Head et al. (2010) as well as on updates available from the WTO’s Regional Trade Agreements Information System.”
• A Panel Data Analysis of Trade Creation and Trade Diversion effects: The case of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (2014, background): “…gravity model of trade that includes multilateral resistance terms (MRTs), as proposed by Anderson and van Wincoop (2003), and we will obtain unbiased estimates by controlling not only for country-and-time effects, but also for country-pair fixed effects, as proposed by Baier and Bergstrand (2007).”
• Bias and consistency in three-way gravity models (2019, background): “…is not innocuous (as argued by Santos Silva and Tenreyro, 2006), and—most relevant to the context of trade agreements—that earlier, puzzlingly small estimates of the effects of free trade agreements were almost certainly biased downward by treating them as exogenous (Baier and Bergstrand, 2007).”
• Foreign Direct Investment and Bilateral Investment Treaties an International Political Perspective (2009, background): “The fact that the coe cient is only signi cant in the speci cation including country-pair xed e ects suggests that countries choose well when signing a BIT, as suggested by Baier and Bergstrand (2007) concerning free trade agreements.”
• Do we really know that trade agreements increase trade? (2014, background): “The former involves aggregation of numerous EIAs in large datasets to measure the impact of economic integration on world trade at large (see, e.g., Rose 2004; Baier and Bergstrand 2007).”
• Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence (2015, unknown): “Baier and Bergstrand (2007), after controlling for potential selection into agreements, …nd that PTAs can increase trade by as much as 100%. Other explanations for large trade impacts of some PTAs include competitive reallocation and productivity enhancing investments induced by trade liberalization”
• Cultural proximity and trade (2006, unknown): “Baier and Bergstrand (2007) use a similar strategy in their work on the effects of free trade agreements.”
• On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements: Lessons from twenty years of trade integration (2019, unknown): “Baier et al. (2018) allows for this type of heterogeneity by interacting their EIA dummies with ex ante pair-specific relationships, rather than conditioning on agreement-specific variables. Our two stage approach combines the perspective of Baier et al. (2018) with that of Zylkin (2015), who allows”
• The pro-trade effect of the brain drain: Sorting out confounding factors (2009, unknown): “Table 1 presents pooled OLS estimations of equation (1).”