This study provides a description and framework for analysis of the role that ideas and beliefs -- collectively, mental models or shared mental models -- have played in the formation of bilateral free trade agreement (BTA) policy in Southeast Asia. In doing so, this study compri…
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Scope and Method of Study: This thesis explores the use of Economic Integration Agreements (EIAs) by the United States since 1985. It tests a basic causal expectation that links geo-political concerns, especially the pursuit of security, with the enactment of EIAs. After establi…
The dissertation examines the impact of trade liberalization and free trade agreements (FTAs) on growth, inequality, and poverty in light of Egypt's efforts to integrate its economy with the rest of the world. Do the new trade arrangements promote economic growth? And if so, wha…
The wage gap between skilled workers and unskilled workers expanded in the U.S. Based on the essential idea of Stolper and Samuelson (1941) and following the mandated wage method of Haskel and Slaughter (2003), this dissertation examines whether the reductions of U.S. import tar…
"Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world - but what difference do they make? This book answers that question by providing an up-to-date assessment of the quality and impact of FTAs in the regio…
This dissertation is organized into two essays in international economics and finance. The first is an analysis of the US-Morocco free trade agreement and its impact on Morocco. The study uses a computable general equilibrium CGE model and relaxes assumptions of full employment …
