Hub-and-spokes free trade agreements in the presence of technology spillovers: An application to the western hemisphere

Review of World Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-66

  Das, Gouranga Gopal ^a   Andriamananjara, Soamiely ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Adjacency; Free Trade Areas; Governance; Hub and spokes; Preference dilution; Technology transfer; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746934169     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-006-0056-x     Document Type: Article

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