Free trade agreements lead to a rise in bilateral trade regardless of whether the signatories are developed or developing countries. Furthermore, the percentage increase in bilateral trade is higher for South-South agreements than for North-South agreements. In this paper, the results are robust across a number of gravity model specifications in which the analysis controls for the endogeneity of free trade agreements (with bilateral fixed effects)...
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2011/04/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS5626
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2011/04/01
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Disclosed
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Does it matter who you sign with ? comparing the impacts of north-south and south-south trade agreements on bilateral trade
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alternative exchange rate regime