IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-04f10007.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Preferential Trade Agreements: Endogenous Response of the Third Country

Author

Listed:
  • Soamiely Andriamananjara

    (US International Trade Commission)

Abstract

In most of the current debate on regionalism versus multilateralism, the countries excluded from a Preferential Trading Agreement (PTA) are assumed to be passive players with exogenously fixed trade policies. In reality however, non-members do react to the creation of a trading bloc and relaxing this assumption can provide useful insights. Using a political economy model, this paper explore the case where those excluded countries can adjust their commercial policies in order to minimize the negative effects of the PTA. It is shown that the creation of a PTA can lead the excluded countries to increase their trade barriers with respect to the PTA members.

Suggested Citation

  • Soamiely Andriamananjara, 2004. "Preferential Trade Agreements: Endogenous Response of the Third Country," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 6(21), pages 1-11.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-04f10007
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/EB/2004/Volume6/EB-04F10007A.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Political Economy;

    JEL classification:

    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-04f10007. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: John P. Conley (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.