The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement and Vietnam’s Trade Efficiency

The Effects of ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) on Intra ASEAN Trade: 1986-2010

The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) was set up in 1993 and has already shown significant effects by 2010. This study empirically investigates the effect of trade creation on intra-ASEAN trade for the period of 1986 to 2010. Using the gravity model, we find that major determinants of bilateral trade in ASEAN are GDP, population, relative endowment, distance and common border. A dummy variable ...

Impact of ASEAN : China free trade area on trade flows

This paper estimates the impact of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on the trade flows between China and the ASEAN countries. A gravity model with FTA specification is used to estimate the treatment effect of ACFTA. Since there are other unobserved variables that correlate with both the trade flows between China–ASEAN and the decision to form ACFTA, a cross-sectional OLS regression runs the...

Investment creation and diversion effects of the ASEAN¬タモChina free trade agreement

a r t i c l e i n f o The ASEAN–China free trade agreement went into effect January 1, 2010 and became the world's third largest FTA by trade volume after the European Economic Area and the North American Free Trade Agreement. This paper focuses on highlighting the impacts of the reduction of barriers to trade on investment in a dynamic general computable equilibrium framework. We present and c...

ASEAN-INDIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IN GOODS: AN ASSESSMENT Institute of Management Studies and Re

The study investigates India’s trade prospect with ASEAN countries by analyzing the pattern and trends in India’s bilateral merchandise trade with ASEAN countries and their revealed comp that during last three decades India’s share in ASEAN has increased, but it has been less than that of Japan and China. T more marked in the case of im vis-à-vis ASEAN countries. had been worst in case of its t...

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)