WTO and Reciprocal Preferential Trading Agreements

Edited by Caroline Freund, Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, US

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Caroline FreundPART ITHE THEORY OF PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS 1. Jacob Viner (1950), ‘The Economics of Customs Unions’2. W.M. Corden (1972), ‘Economies of Scale and Customs Union Theory’3. Murray C. Kemp and Henry Y. Wan, Jr. (1976), ‘An Elementary Proposition Concerning the Formation of Customs Unions’4. Paul Wonnacott and Ronald Wonnacott (1981), ‘Is Unilateral Tariff Reduction Preferable to a Customs Union? The Curious Case of Missing Foreign Tariffs’PART IITHE GATT’S ARTICLE XXIV 5. Richard H. Snape (1993), ‘History and Economics of GATT’s Article XXIV’PART IIIOVERVIEW OF REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERALISM6. J. Bhagwati and A. Panagariya (1999), ‘Preferential Trading Areas and Multilateralism: Strangers, Friends or Foes?’7. Arvind Panagariya (2000), ‘Preferential Trade Liberalization: The Traditional Theory and New Developments’PART IVTHE EFFECTS OF REGIONALISM ON THE MULTILATERAL SYSTEM 8. Martin Richardson (1993), ‘Endogenous Protection and Trade Diversion’9. Richard E. Baldwin (1995), ‘A Domino Theory of Regionalism’10. Arvind Panagariya and Ronald Findlay (1996), ‘A Political-Economy Analysis of Free-Trade Areas and Customs Unions’11. Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger (1997), ‘Multilateral Tariff Cooperation During the Formation of Customs Unions’12. Philip I. Levy (1997), ‘A Political-Economic Analysis of Free-Trade Agreements’13. Pravin Krishna (1998), ‘Regionalism and Multilateralism: A Political Economy Approach’PART VTHE EFFECTS OF MULTILATERALISM ON REGIONALISM14. Wilfred J. Ethier (1998), ‘Regionalism in a Multilateral World’15. Caroline Freund (2000), ‘Multilateralism and the Endogenous Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements’PART VINATURAL TRADE PARTNERS 16. Paul Wonnacott and Mark Lutz (1989), ‘Is There a Case for Free Trade Areas?’17. Lawrence H. Summers (1991), ‘Regionalism and the World Trading System’18. Paul Krugman (1993), ‘Regionalism versus Multilateralism: Analytical Notes’19. Jeffrey Frankel, Ernesto Stein, and Shang-jin Wei (1995), ‘Trading Blocs and the Americas: The Natural, The Unnatural and the Supernatural’20. Robert Z. Lawrence (1996), ‘Regionalism and the WTO: Should the Rules Be Changed?’PART VIIRULES OF ORIGIN 21. Anne O. Krueger (1999), ‘Free Trade Agreements as Protectionist Devices: Rules of Origin’22. A. Estvadeordal and K. Suominen (2006), ‘Mapping and Measuring Rules of Origin Around the World’PART VIIIEMPIRICAL ANALYSES 23. T.N. Srinivasan, John Whalley and Ian Wooton (1993), ‘Measuring the Effects of Regionalism on Trade and Welfare’24. Alexander J. Yeats (1998), ‘Does Mercosur’s Trade Performance Raise Concerns about the Effects of Regional Trade Agreements?’25. Faezeh Foroutan (1998), ‘Does Membership in a Regional Preferential Trade Arrangement Make a Country More or Less Protectionist?’26. Won Chang and L. Alan Winters (2002), ‘How Regional Blocs Affect Excluded Countries: The Price Effects of MERCOSUR’27. Alok K. Bohara, Kishore Gawande and Pablo Sanguinetti (2004), ‘Trade Diversion and Declining Tariffs: Evidence from Mercosur’28. Nuno Limão (2006), ‘Preferential Trade Agreements as Stumbling Blocks for Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Evidence for the United States’Name Index