Felbermayr, Gabriel; Teti, Feodora - 2023
Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade … data set of high-quality tariff information, the paper shows that, on average, non-tariff barriers reductions in deep …-tariff barriers. For most regional trade agreements, we fail to find any significant effect, while 9 percent appear to reduce trade …