Is Regionalism Simply a Diversion? Evidence from the Evolution of the EC and EFTA

Author/Editor:

Tamim Bayoumi ; Barry J. Eichengreen

Publication Date:

November 1, 1995

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Summary:

This paper considers the impact on trade of preferential arrangements in Europe since the 1950s. Using a first difference version of the gravity model, we find that the EEC and EFTA altered the pattern of international trade. We also find evidence of trade diversion in several cases, notably that of the EEC in the 1960s.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1995/109

Subject:

Notes:

Revised version of paper presented at the Sixth Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics, Seoul, Korea, June 15-17, 1995.

English

Publication Date:

November 1, 1995

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451853155/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1091995

Pages:

31

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