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Opening the Black Box of Trade Agreements

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In this chapter the author presents a coding methodology to capture the heterogeneity of trade agreements and to facilitate quantitative analysis departing from qualitative legal differences in trade agreements. The coding is based on whether the provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are covered by free trade agreements, as well as whether they are legally enforceable. Then, the author offers a heterogeneity index that is used to analyze the content of a trade agreement. The index can be used in gravity models to estimate the effect of FTAs on trade.

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    The dataset is available at http://www.tristankohl.org

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Tristan Kohl

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  1. NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France

    Philippe De Lombaerde

  2. Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz

    Edgar J. Saucedo Acosta

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Kohl, T. (2017). Opening the Black Box of Trade Agreements. In: De Lombaerde, P., Saucedo Acosta, E. (eds) Indicator-Based Monitoring of Regional Economic Integration. United Nations University Series on Regionalism, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50860-3_14

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