Are free trade agreements contagious?
By: Richard Baldwin, Dany Jaimovich
Contributors: Jaimovich, Dany; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16084; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16084.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations.  We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and geographical determinants of FTA formation.  Our main finding is that contagion is present in our data and is robust to various econometric specifications and samples"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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