Regional trade agreements and south-south fdi: potential benefits and challenges for sacu-mercosur investment relationsIn December 2004, the countries of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)1 signed an initial preferential trade agreement (PTA) as a step towards the eventual formation of a free trade area....
Preferential trade agreements harm third countries... We also show that a preferential trade agreement increases the relative wage, the welfare, and the terms-of-trade in the partner countries, where the integration e¤ect dominates, while lowering those...
The stable equilibrium of preferential trade agreements under technology asymmetry... Using a four country oligopoly model with asymmetric technology, we examine the implication of preferential trade agreement on tariff and welfare....
From idealism to realism? eu preferential trade agreement policyThis article examines how the EU’s ‘conflicted power’ in trade has played out within its preferential trade agreement (PTA) strategies with third parties....
