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  • Carsten Kowalczyk
  • Raymond Riezman

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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 2660.

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Date of creation: 2009
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Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_2660

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Keywords: trade agreements; multilateralism; free trade; customs unions; free trade areas; preferential trade;

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  2. Portugal-Perez, Alberto, 2009. "Assessing the impact of political economy factors on rules of origin under NAFTA," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4848, The World Bank.
  3. Cheong, David, 2010. "Methods for Ex Post Economic Evaluation of Free Trade Agreements," Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration 59, Asian Development Bank.
  4. Richard Pomfret, 2005. "Regional Trade Agreements," School of Economics Working Papers 2005-15, University of Adelaide, School of Economics.
  5. Baier, Scott L; Bergstrand, Jeffery H; Mariutto, Roland., 2010. "The Growth of Bilateralism," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 12, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  6. Vollrath, Thomas L. & Hallahan, Charles B., 2009. "Economic costs and payoffs of bilateral/regional trade agreements," 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 49375, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  7. Carsten Kowalczyk & Raymond Riezman, 2009. "Free trade: what are the terms-of-trade effects?," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 147-161, October.
  8. T. Huw Edwards, Matthias Lücke, 2011. "Decompositions of Wage Inequality and Growth in an Advanced Economy open to Trade," Kiel Working Papers 1749, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
  9. Svetlana Demidova & Hiau Looi Kee & Kala Krishna, 2006. "Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters," NBER Working Papers 12725, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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