The regionalization of the world economy / edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel.

Regional economic arrangements such as free trade areas (FTAs), customs unions, and currency blocs, have become increasingly prevalent in the world economy. Both pervasive and controversial, regionalisation has some economists optimistic about the opportunities it creates and others fearful that it...

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Other Authors: Frankel, Jeffrey A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
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Table of Contents:
  • Determinants of bilateral trade: does gravity work in a neoclassical world? / Alan V. Deardorff; comment / Jeffrey H. Bergstrand ; Gene M. Grossman
  • Role of history in bilateral trade flows / Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin; comment / Robert Lawrence ; Paul Wonnacott
  • Why do countries seek regional trade agreements? / John Whalley; comment / Eric W. Bond ; Dani Rodrik
  • Continental trading blocs : are they natural or supernatural / Jeffrey A. Frankel, Ernesto Stein, and Shang-Jin Wei ; comment / Paul Krugman ; T.N. Srinivasan
  • Welfare implications of trading blocs among countries with different endowments / Antonio Spilimbergo and Ernesto Stein; comment / Jon Haveman ; Edward E. Leamer
  • Regional patterns in the law of one price : the roles of geography versus currencies / Charles Engel and John H. Rogers; comment / Kenneth A. Froot ; Michael Knetter
  • Regionalization of world trade and currencies : economics and politics / Jeffrey A. Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei ; comment / David Hummels ; Philip I. Levy
  • Tariff phase-outs : theory and evidence from GATT and NAFTA / Carsten Kowalczyk and Donald Davis; comment / Arvind Panagariya and Robert W. Staiger.