Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System

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Peterson Institute, 1997 - 364 páginas
This book explores whether the world economy is breaking up into regional trading and currency blocs centred on the European Community, Japan and the United States. Frankel uses trade, investment and financial data to assess this issue. He concludes with an analysis of how trends in regional economic integration can be used as building blocks for a stronger multilateral system.
 

Contenido

Introduction to Regional Trading Arrangements
1
Simple Measures of Regional Concentration in Trade
27
Importance of Geographical Proximity in Trade
35
The Gravity Model of Bilateral Trade
49
35
72
Estimated Effects of Trading Blocs
77
40
87
2535
96
Natural and Supernatural Trading Blocs
165
Has Regionalization Entered the Supernatural Zone?
197
A Political Economy Survey of Regionalisms Effect on Global
207
Conclusions and Recommendations
229
Appendix A An Outline and History of Regional Trading Arrangements
246
Appendix B Further Measures of Regional Trade Integration
281
An Added Note to Chapter 4 on the Intercepts in the Pooled
313
References
327

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111
Extensions of the Empirical Analysis
115
A Model of Trade in Imperfect Substitutes with Intercontinental
149

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Jeffrey A. Frankel was a Visiting Fellow and Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkely. He was formerly Senior Internaitonal Economist at the Council fo Economic Advisers (1983-84).

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