Economic integration and the two margins of trade: the impact of the Barcelona process on North African countries' exports

• Published in: Journal of African Economies
• Main Authors: Bensassi, S., Márquez-Ramos, L., Martŕnez-Zarzoso, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2012
• Subjects: F10; Martínez; Ramos; sami
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/108139; https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejr038

According to recently developed models of trade with imperfect competition and heterogeneous firms, lower trade costs increase bilateral trade not only through a rise in the mean value of individual shipments (the intensive margin of trade), but also through an increase in the number of exporting fi...