Regional Integration and Economic Development: Optimal or Messy Networks?

• In Event: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements

Brief Overview

States join Regional Integration Organizations to improve economic development. We argue that this is difficult to produce with overlapping memberships among similarly developed and sized economies. RIO data from 1962-2014 confirm our hypothesis.

Authors

• Gaspare M. Genna, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Zining Yang, Claremont Graduate University

• Mark Abdollahian, Claremont Graduate University