Regional integration and trade: Controlling for varying degrees of heterogeneity in the gravity model

World Economy

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 772-789

  Stack, Marie M ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BILATERAL AGREEMENT; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; EXPORT; MODELING; OECD; PANEL DATA; REGIONAL ECONOMY; TRADE FLOW; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 65449121879     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: 14679701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2009.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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