Publication year
2016Author(s)
Publisher
Aalto University & VATT Institute, Helsinki : [S.n.]
Number of pages
24 p.
Annotation
European Trade Study Group, 10 september 2016
Publication type
Conference lecture

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Organization
Internationale economie
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
Institute for Management ResearchAbstract
In the plethora of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) some countries take in a more central position
than others in the sense that some countries are much more engaged with other countries through
RTAs. Furthermore, the position of some countries is that of a hub: they have (many) trade agreements
with other countries (bilateral and plurilateral), but the countries they are engaged with (‘spokes’) do
not have trade agreements with each other. Using the current number of RTAs in goods and services as
notified to the WTO until now, we develop a measure to assess the ‘hubness’ of a country in its trade
agreements with the rest of the world. The paper then explores the extent to which being a hub is a
prerogative of advanced countries, as is often (implicitly) assumed in the literature on RTAs. This is
important because of the literature’s focus on the asymmetric welfare consequences for the hub
(positive) and spokes (negative) of being part of a hub-and-spoke relationship.
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