Asian Regionalism and Its Effects on Trade in the 1980s and 1990s

Ramon L. Clarete (), Christopher Edmonds and Jessica Seddon Wallack ()
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Ramon L. Clarete: University of the Philippines
Jessica Seddon Wallack: Stanford University

No 30, ADB Economics Working Paper Series from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: This paper begins by outlining the major preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in Asia and other regions and reviewing trends in trade flows. The paper uses a gravity model augmented with several sets of dummy variables to estimate the effect of various PTAs on trade flows within and across membership groupings as well as the effect of PTAs on members' trade with Asian countries. On the basis of these estimates, we are able to categorize 11 major PTAs into those that increase intrabloc trade at the expense of their respective imports from the rest of the world; those that expand their respective trade among their members without reducing their trade with nonmembers; and those that reduce trade with nonmembers without significant changes in intrabloc trade. The authors also show that PTAs have augmented trade in Asia.

Keywords: Asia; gravity model; preferential trade agreements; trade flows; trends (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F15 F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2002-11-01
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