Three Essays on Regional Trade and Growth

Diplôme Thèse Three Essays on Regional Trade and Growth eng 2022-06-16 2022-06-24 author Nouar Mariem 724525 director Carrere Céline 681177 director Sperlich Stefan Andréas 729471 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:161797 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1617979 GSEM 110 This thesis focuses on regional trade and economic growth with a particular focus on African economies in the second and last chapters. The first chapter is an empirical validation of the theoretical prediction of Venables (2003) showing that RTAs tend to decrease imports from the rest of the world to a greater extent for countries with an ‘extreme’ comparative advantage. In the second chapter, I analyze the potential drivers of disparities in growth paths between sub-Saharan Africa and other regions, namely South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and the rest of the world. I take a new approach in the analysis of growth regressions by using a nested fixed-effects model with varying coefficients, which allows me to model the heterogeneity in the growth trajectories of each region. The third chapter is a progress report that questions whether South-South RTAs (including eight African Regional Economic Communities) can help increase trade in manufactures among their members as industrialization is one of the main challenges faced by low-income countries. We conclude that PTAs play an important role in trade in manufactures within South-South agreements, particularly deeper integration matters for the participation of low-income countries into global value chains. Preferential Trade Agreements Regional Trade Trade Diversion Growth Solow Model Africa Gravity Model Nested Fixed Effects Model Dewey 330 114 Institute of Economics and Econometrics S2 false c0de84fe-8f4e-4bf0-b0ba-537bdeafc986 Thesis Restricted Three_essays_on_regional_trade_and_.pdf 2603729 application/pdf 1ba41c9b4d0984ae3cde1a98f89d074869b701a4b62f79528143c910e0495afa c08448ac-e652-410d-8e75-39e9466f2104 Imprimatur Public NOUAR Mariem Imprimatur.pdf 201037 application/pdf 6076d2ea0c386337399c8d66c4bd0bc478d892bf76a2666fa4a37315f45c9378 restrictedAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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