Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements? / John Whalley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whalley, John.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5552.

NBER working paper series no. w5552

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial treaties.

Trade blocs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996.

Summary:

This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between multilateral and regional trade negotiating positions. In a final section, results from an earlier modelling effort by Perroni and Whalley are used to emphasize that non- traditional objectives may be quantitatively more important than traditionally analyzed objectives.

Notes:

Print version record

April 1996.