Regional Trading Arrangements: Natural or Supernatural?

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 52-56

  Frankel, Jeffrey A ^a   Stein, Ernesto ^b   Wei, Shang Jin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; REGIONAL TRADE; REGIONAL TRADING ARRANGEMENT;

EID: 0030471262     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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