Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries?

Jung Hur, Cheolbeom Park

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Abstract

This paper assesses whether a bilateral FTA raises the growth rates of the two countries engaging in the FTA. A nonparametric matching approach, which imposes no specific functional forms and can be applied to a broad range of data structures, is employed to estimate the FTA effect on the growth. We find that FTAs exert insignificant effects on aggregated growth from one to 10. year period after launch, but detect a significant upward trend in the gap between the growth rates of per capita GDP within a bilateral FTA. This implies uneven FTA effects across countries within an FTA.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1283-1294
Number of pages12
JournalWorld Development
Volume40
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Jul 1

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Keywords

  • Convergence
  • Divergence
  • Free trade agreement
  • Growth
  • Matching
  • Treatment effect

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Development
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Sociology and Political Science

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Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries? / Hur, Jung; Park, Cheolbeom.

In: World Development, Vol. 40, No. 7, 01.07.2012, p. 1283-1294.

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Hur, J & Park, C 2012, 'Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries?', World Development, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1283-1294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.12.006
Hur J, Park C. Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries? World Development. 2012 Jul 1;40(7):1283-1294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.12.006
Hur, Jung ; Park, Cheolbeom. / Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Economic Growth of the Member Countries?. In: World Development. 2012 ; Vol. 40, No. 7. pp. 1283-1294.
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