Measuring trade creation and trade diversion in the Central American common market: A Hicksian alternative

World Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 323-335

  Nicholls, Shelton M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Central American Common Market; Compensating and equivalent variation; Trade creation; Trade diversion

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET; TRADE CREATION; TRADE DIVERSION;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0031859639     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)10037-7     Document Type: Article

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