The Impact of Trade Agreements in Latin America using the Synthetic Control Method /

The paper employs synthetic control method (SCM) to determine the impact of trade agreements for 64 Latin American country pairs in the period 1989-1996. The results suggest that trade agreements have markedly boosted exports in Latin America, on an average by 76.4 percentage points over ten years....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hannan, Swarnali
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/045
Online Access:Full text available on IMF