Regional Trade Agreements Versus Broad Liberalization : Which Path Leads to Faster Growth? Time-Series Evidence /

Should a closed economy open its trade to all countries or limit itself to participation in regional trade agreements (RTAs)? Based on time-series evidence for a data set for 1950-92, this paper estimates and compares the growth performance of countries that liberalized broadly and those that joined...

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Autor principal: Vamvakidis, Athanasios
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/040
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF