Regional integration and the prices of imports : an empirical investigation

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Regional integration and the prices of imports : an empirical investigation, Volume 1

Author:	Winters, L. Alan; Won Chang;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1782
Country:	Spain;	Date Stored:	2001/04/21
Document Date:	1997/06/30	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	(Historic)Economic Policy
Region:	Europe and Central Asia	Report Number:	WPS1782
Sub Sectors:	Trade	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Payment Systems & Infrastructure; Economic Theory & Research; Markets and Market Access; Trade Policy; Free Trade; Access to Markets
Volume No:	1

Summary: The authors explore the effects on the terms of trade of regional economic integration. They show why it is an appropriate measure of the welfare effects of such integration, comparing it with the many ex post studies that base their conclusions on changes in the import shares of member and nonmember countries. They demonstrate, by using a simple strategic model, how member countries might gain in their terms of trade, and nonmembers lose, through a lowering of preferential tariffs. Most important, they show that measuring such price effects, though difficult, is feasible. This is the first ex post study of its kind, they believe, and an improvement over previous ex post studies on how integration affects the rest of the world. Using finely disaggregated data about Spanish imports of finished manufactures from major OECD trading partners, despite their noisiness, they found a consistent story over all of the country pairs examined. They find that nonmembers (in this case, Japan and the United States) suffered detectable losses in terms of trade relative to European Community competitors in Spanish import markets for differentiated goods.


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