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NAFTA: fast forward?
Little, Jane Sneddon (1997-07)
Regional Review , Issue Sum , Pages 25-26

Working Paper
Mexico's integration into NAFTA markets: a view from sectoral real exchange rates
Blavy, Rodolphe; Juvenal, Luciana (2008)
Using a self-exciting threshold autoregressive model, we confirm the presence of nonlinearities in sectoral real exchange rate (SRER) dynamics across Mexico, Canada and the US in the pre-NAFTA and post-NAFTA periods. Measuring transaction costs using the estimated threshold bands, we find evidence that Mexico still faces higher transaction costs than their developed counterparts. Trade liberalization is associated with reduced transaction costs and lower relative price differentials among countries. Other determinants of transaction costs are distance and nominal exchange rate volatility. Our ...
Working Papers , Paper 2008-046

Discussion Paper
NAFTA and Mexican development
Stokey, Nancy L. (1996)
Using a calibrated growth model, the dynamic effects of NAFTA on Mexican development are studied. Two scenarios are analyzed. In the first, NAFTA is assumed to stimulate inflows of physical capital into Mexico. These inflows reduce the interest rate and raise the wage rates for both skilled and unskilled labor. The skilled wage rises more sharply, however, increasing the skill premium and rapidly accelerating the accumulation of human capital. In the second scenario, NAFTA is assumed to have the effect of fully integrating Mexico with the U.S. and Canada. Integration also reduces the interest ...
Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics , Paper 108

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NAFTA and the geography of North American trade
Wall, Howard J. (2002)
Debates over the desirability a preferential trading area (PTA) begin with the supposition that it will have two effects on trade: it will increase trade between PTA members, and decrease trade between members and non-members. This paper demonstrates, however, that at the regional level the effects of NAFTA have been much more complicated than what is normally supposed. Specifically, I find that NAFTA has meant (i) less trade between Eastern Canada and the United States and Mexico, (ii) more trade between Central Canada and the United States and Mexico, and (iii) more trade between Western ...
Working Papers , Paper 2000-017

Working Paper
Trade policy opinions at the state level
Coughlin, Cletus C. (2001)
Despite economists' nearly universal support for free trade policies, the general public has serious reservations about free trade. To understand this opposition, one must understand the preferences of individuals as they relate to the policy choices of policymakers. Ideally, one would like to know how these preferences differ across regions because legislators who represent their constituents in the U.S. Congress cast the actual votes on trade policies. The present study produces estimates by state of trade preferences linked directly to individual preferences. ; Scheve and Slaughter (2001a) ...
Working Papers , Paper 2001-006

Working Paper
NAFTA and the changing pattern of state exports
Wall, Howard J.; Coughlin, Cletus C. (2002)
The trade liberalization associated with NAFTA has affected the pattern of state exports by altering the origin as well as the destination of merchandise exports. We find that NAFTA has increased US merchandise exports to Mexico and Canada by just over 15 percent, and has increased total US merchandise exports by nearly 8 percent. We also find that although many states have seen large increases in exports to both Mexico and Canada, others have seen large decreases. NAFTA has also affected states? exports to non-NAFTA regions of the world, tending to decrease exports to Europe and Latin ...
Working Papers , Paper 2000-029

Working Paper
Gravity model specification and the effects of the Canada-U.S. border
Wall, Howard J. (2000)
There is a well-established literature finding that the Canada-U.S. border has a large dampening effect on trade, is asymmetric, and differs across provinces. In this paper, I demonstrate that the standard gravity model used to obtain these results provides biased estimates of the volume of trade. I attribute this to heterogeneity bias and reestimate the effects of the border using a gravity model that allows for heterogeneous gravity equations. Doing so does not alter the general results of existing studies, although it does yield a border effect that is 40 percent larger, reverses the ...
Working Papers , Paper 2000-024

Working Paper
Dynamic trade liberalization analysis: steady state, transitional and inter-industry effects
Kouparitsas, Michael A. (1998)
Despite their complexity, existing policy evaluation methods ignore many features of the real world that are pertinent for welfare analysis of trade policy. The main limitation of these technics is that they are static, which means they ignore important dynamic consequences of trade liberalization. This paper develops dynamic tools that overcome many of these weaknesses. I apply these technics to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). My analysis suggests that while the steady state gains from NAFTA are significant, the transitional costs associated with moving to the liberalized ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-98-15

Journal Article
Border region makes progress in the 1990s
Dittmar, Eric; Phillips, Keith R. (1999)
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Framing the future: tomorrow's border economy
Gilmer, Robert W.; Phillips, Keith R.; Coronado, Roberto; Cañas, Jesus (2005)
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