Continental Trading Blocs: Are They Natural or Supernatural?

Jeffrey A. Frankel, Ernesto Stein & Shang-Jin Wei
Published Date
Copyright 1998
ISBN 0226259951
Regionalism and Rivalry
Book: The Regionalization of the World Economy
Book editor: Jeffrey A. Frankel
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Jeffrey A. Frankel, Ernesto Stein, and Shang-Jin Wei, The Regionalization of the World Economy (University of Chicago Press, 1998), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/regionalization-world-economy/continental-trading-blocs-are-they-natural-or-supernatural.

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Continental Trading Blocs: Are They Natural, or Super-Natural?
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Using the gravity model, we find evidence of three continental trading blocs: the Americas, Europe and Pacific Asia....

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