Trade Agreements

This paper reviews the most signi…cant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper o¤ers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identi…es also several questions for further research. (46 words)

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