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Third-Country Effects on the Formation of Free Trade Agreements

Chen, Maggie and Joshi, Sumit (2010): Third-Country Effects on the Formation of Free Trade Agreements. Forthcoming in: Journal of International Economics

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Abstract

The recent proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) has resulted in an increasingly complex network of preferential trading relationships. The economics literature has generally examined the formation of FTAs as a function of the participating countries' economic characteristics alone. In this paper, we show both theoretically and empirically that the decision to enter into an FTA is also crucially dependent on the participating countries' existing FTA relationships with third countries. Accounting for the interdependence of FTAs helps to explain a significant fraction of FTA formations that would not otherwise be predicted by countries' economic characteristics.

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