Does A Regional Trade Agreement Lessen or Exacerbate Growth Volatility? : An Empirical Investigation /

This paper assesses how regional trade agreements (RTAs) impact growth volatility on a worldwide sample of 170 countries with data spanning the period 1978-2012. Notwithstanding concerns that trade openness through RTAs can heighten exposure to shocks, in particular when it leads to increased produc...

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मुख्य लेखक: Kpodar, Kangni
अन्य लेखक: Imam, Patrick
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/177
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Full text available on IMF