Integrating the Americas

FTAA and Beyond

Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal

Edited by Dani Rodrik

Edited by Alan M. Taylor

Edited by Andr&eacutes Velasco

    List of Tables

    List of Figures

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    About the Contributors

    List of Abbreviations

    PART 1: INTRODUTCION

    1. Introduction
    Antoni Estevadeordal, Dani Rodrik, Alan M. Taylor, and Andrès Velasco

    Part 2: THE FTAA: HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL PERPECTIVES

    2. The Roots of Latin American Protectionism: Looking before the Great Depression
    John H. Coatsworth and Jeffrey G. Williamson

    3. Economic Integration in the Americas: European Perspectives
    Anthony J. Venables and L. Alan Winters

    4. The Proliferation of Sovereigns: Are There Lessons for Integration?
    Matías Braun, Ricardo Hausmann, and Lant Pritchett

    5. The Old and New Regionalism: Benefits, Costs, and Implications for the FTAA
    Robert Devlin and Paolo Giordano

    Part 3: MACROECONMICS OF THE FTAA

    6. The Monetary Consequences of a Free Trade Area of the Americas
    Barry Eichengreen and Alan M. Taylor

    7. Macroeconomic Coordination and Monetary Unions in an n-Country World: Do All Roads Lead to Rome?
    Andrew Powell and Federico vo Sturzenegger

    Part 4: NEGOTIATING THE FTAA AGREEMENT: TRADITIONAL AND NEW ISSUES

    8. Prospects and Challenges for the Liberalization of Agricultural Trade in the Western Hemisphere
    Mario Berrios, Jaime Granados, Marcos S. Jank, Josefina Monteagudo, and Masakazu Watanuki

    9. Regionalism and Trade in Services in the Western Hemisphere: A Policy Agenda
    Aaditya Mattoo and Pierre Sauvé

    10. Tackling International Anticompetitive Practices in the Americas: Implications for the Free Trade Area of the Americas
    Julian L. Clarke and Simon J. Evenett

    Part 5: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE FTAA

    11. The United States and a Free Trade Area of the Americas: A Political-Economic Analysis
    I. M. (Mac) Destler
    12. The Political Economy of Economic Integration in the Americas: Latin American Interests
    Marcelo de Paiva Abreu

    Part 6: ASSESSING THE ECONOMICS OF THE FTAA

    13. Do Preferential Trade Agreements Matter for Trade? The FTAA and the Pattern of Trade
    Antoni Estevadeordal and Raymond Robertson

    14. A Virtuous Circle? Regional Tariff Liberalization and Scale Economies in Transport
    David Hummels and Alexandre Skiba

    15. What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico since NAFTA? Implications for Hemispheric Free Trade
    Gordon H. Hanson

    16. Can an FTAA Suspend the Law of Gravity and Give the Americas Higher Growth and Better Income Distributions?
    Bernardo S. Blum and Edward E. Learner

    17. Regional Integration and Productivity: The Experiences of Brazil and Mexico
    Ernesto López-Córdova and Mauricio Mesquita Moreira

    18. The FTAA and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment
    Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Ernesto Stein, and Christian Daude

    Part 7: FTAA AND BEYOND

    19. Labor Standards and the FTAA
    Kimberly Ann Elliot

    20. The Environmental Dimension of Economic Integration: The FTAA and Beyond
    Daniel C. Esty

    21. Social Protection and Inclusive Trade: Strengthening the Sources of Convergence within FTAA.
    Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig

    22. Asymmetries and Cooperation in the FTAA
    Inés Bustillo and José Antonio Ocampo

    23. The FTAA's Impact on Democratic Governance
    Mark Barenberg and Peter Evans
    Index

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Antoni Estevadeordal is a Principal Trade Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Dani Rodrik is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Alan M. Taylor is Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis.

Andrés Velasco is Sumitomo Fasid Professor of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.