The design of international trade agreements: Introducing a new dataset

Review of International Organizations

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 353-375

  Dür, Andreas ^a   Baccini, Leonardo ^b   Elsig, Manfred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dataset; Gravity model; Institutional design; New regionalism; Preferential trade agreements; Trade flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905459779     PISSN: 15597431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11558-013-9179-8     Document Type: Article

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