Spaghetti Regionalism or Strategic Foreign Trade: Some Evidence for Mexico / Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9692.

NBER working paper series no. w9692

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Spaghetti Regionalism or Strategic Foreign Trade

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.

Summary:

After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy continues to negotiate with countries such as Japan, Panama, Uruguay or Argentina. Criticism of multiple regional trade agreements (RTAs) arises from a consistency test, but also from the ability of a country to administer them. Mexico's multiple agreements have generally used the principle of NAFTA consistency, after the acceptance that NAFTA became a broader and deeper accord than results of the Uruguay multilateral achievements. An analysis of multiple RTAs is presented, including a game model of equilibrium, along with a political economy approach of why Mexico seeks multiple RTAs as its foreign trade policy.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2003.