Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? : Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA /

South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade patterns. S...

Descrizione completa

Dettagli Bibliografici
Autore principale: Mayda, Anna Maria
Altri autori: Steinberg, Chad
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/040
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF