TY - BOOK AU - Freund, Caroline, ed. TI - The WTO reciprocal preferential trading agreements SN - 9781845422028 U1 - 351.827 PY - 2007/// CY - UK PB - Elgar Reference Collection KW - World Trade Organization KW - Trade blocs KW - Commercial treaties KW - Reciprocity (Commerce) N1 - 1. The economics of customs unions / Jacob Viner -- 2. Economies of scale and customs union theory / W.M. Corden -- 3. An elementary proposition concerning the formation of customs unions / Murray C. Kemp and Henry Y. Wan, Jr. -- 4. Is unilateral tariff reduction preferable to a customs union : the curious case of the missing foreign tariffs / Paul Wonnacolt and Ronald Wonnacott -- 5. History and economies of GATT's article XXIV / Richard H. Snape -- 6. Preferential trading areas and multilateralism : strangers, friends or foes? / J. Bhagwati and A. Panagariya -- 7. Preferential trade liberalization : the traditional theory and new developments / Arvind Panagariya -- 8. Endogenous protection and trade diversion / Martin Richardson -- 9. A domino theory of regionalism / Richard E. Baldwin -- 10. A political-economy analysis of free-trade areas and customs unions / Arvind Panagariya and Ronald Findlay -- 11. Multilateral tariff cooperation during the formation of customs unions / Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger -- 12. A political-economic analysis of free-trade agreements / Philip J. Levy -- 13. Regionalism and multilateralism : a political economy approach / Pravin Krishna -- 14. Regionalism in a multilateral world / Wilfred J. Ethier -- 15. Multilateralism and the endogenous formation of preferential trade agreements / Caroline Freund -- 16. Is there a case for free trade areas? / Paul Wonnacott and Mark Lutz -- 17. Regionalism and the world trading system / Lawrence H. Summers -- 18. Regionalism versus multilateralism : analytical notes / Paul Krugman -- 19. Trading blocs and the Americas : the natural, the unnatural and the super-natural / Jeffrey Frankel, Ernesto Stein and Shang-jin Wei -- 20. Regionalism and the WTO : should the rules be changed? / Robert Z. Lawrence -- 21. Free trade agreements as protectionist devices : rules of origin / Anne O. Krueger -- 22. Mapping and measuring rules of origin around the world / A. Estevadeordal and K. Suominen -- 23. Measuring the effects of regionalism on trade and welfare / T.N. Srinivasan, John Whalley and Ian Wooton -- 24. Does Mercosur's trade performance raise concerns about the effects of regional trade agreements? / Alexander J. Yeats -- 25. Does membership in a regional preferential trade arrangement make a country more or less protectionist? / Faezeh Foroutan -- 26. How regional blocs affect excluded countries : the price effects of MERCOSUR / Won Chang and L. Alan Winters -- 27. Trade diversion and declining tariffs : evidence from Mercosur / Alok K. Bohara, Kishore Gawande and Pablo Sanguinetti -- 28. Preferential trade agreements as stumbling blocks for multilateral trade liberalization : evidence for the United States / Nuno Limao ER -