Tangled up in a spaghetti bowl - trade effects of overlapping preferential trade agreements in Africa
(2012) NEKH01 20112Department of Economics
- Abstract
- Overlapping trade agreements in Africa are often brought up as an obstacle to the trade effect of preferential integration and referred to as the spaghetti bowl. The problem has not been investigated empirically before although it is often discussed by observers of the African economy. The purpose of this study is to describe the spaghetti bowl in Africa and to assess its impact on the effect of preferential integration with the help of a gravity model. The data cover intra-Africa bilateral trade flows for Africa’s 53 countries. The study could not provide evidence of a negative effect of overlapping agreements on preferential integration and hence trade.
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- author
- Fergin, Elina LU
- supervisor
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- Maria Persson LU
- Yves Bourdet LU
- organization
- course
- NEKH01 20112
- year
- 2012
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- spaghetti bowl, Africa trade, gravity model, preferential integration, regional integration
- language
- English
- id
- 2296032
- date added to LUP
- 2012-02-02 08:58:26
- date last changed
- 2012-02-02 08:58:26
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