North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the Natural Trading Partners Hypothesis

North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the Natural Trading Partners Hypothesis

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a regional trade agreement is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are "natural trading partners," while other studies claim that the opposite is true. Schiff an...

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Main Authors:	Schiff, Maurice, Wang, Yanling
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	BILATERAL TRADE CAPITAL GOODS CONSTRUCTION CUSTOMS CUSTOMS UNIONS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMICS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL WORK EXPENDITURES FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AREAS GDP HUMAN CAPITAL IMPORTS INNOVATION INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS INTERNATIONAL TRADE IRON LATIN AMERICAN METALS MULTILATERAL TRADE MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS PETROLEUM PETROLEUM REFINERIES POLITICAL ECONOMY PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVERS STATIC ANALYSIS TECHNICAL CHANGE TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE AGREEMENTS TRADE DIVERSION TRADE NEGOTIATIONS TRADE POLICY TRADE VOLUME VALUE ADDED WHITE NOISE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5263709/north-south-technology-diffusion-regional-integration-dynamics-natural-trading-partners-hypothesis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14237

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5263709/north-south-technology-diffusion-regional-integration-dynamics-natural-trading-partners-hypothesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14237

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