On the different geographic characteristics of Free Trade Agreements and Customs Unions

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• 作者：James Lake^a ; ^{jlake@smu.edu} ; Halis M. Yildiz^b ; ^{hyildiz@economics.ryerson.ca}
• 关键词：C71 ; F12 ; F13
• 刊名：Journal of International Economics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：103
• 期：Complete
• 页码：213-233
• 全文大小：1287 K
• 卷排序：103

文摘

Dynamic farsighted model of preferential trade agreement formation Endogenous choice between Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Customs Unions (CUs) Market size and geographic asymmetries drive equilibrium formation of agreements Explain why CUs are only intra-regional while FTAs are inter and intra-regional Various extensions assess the robustness of our key findings