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Economic Integration and Regional Industrial Specialization : Evidence from the Canadian-U.S. FTA Experience
Serge Coulombe
University of Ottawa. Department of Economics
Michel Beine
出版
Department of Economics, University of Ottawa = Dép. de Science économique, Université d'Ottawa
, 2004
ISBN
0889279527
9780889279520
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bhCQAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We investigate the impact of trade integration between Canada and the United States on the degree of industrial specialization of the Canadian regions. Trade integration is captured through the decrease of trade-weighted tariffs that was boosted by the implementation of the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. We found strong evidence supporting integration's long-run impact on the patterns of absolute industrial diversification. Significantly, this new finding remains robust to the exclusion of the primary sectors and to the potential presence of unit root in the data. Our results lead us to support a positive long-run relationship between trade integration and industrial diversification.