#  General  

 



 ["Trade Blocs: Barriers or Stepping Stones for Global Trade,](http://hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/AFJtradeVanc.pdf)"  *[African Finance Journal](http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?ab=afj&jid=146),* [vol 2, part 1, 2000](http://www.ajol.info/viewissue.php?jid=146&id=777&ab=afj), 1-12. Based on Keynote Speech before IFABE (International Federation of Associations of Business Economists), Vancouver, Nov. 19, 1997.

 *[Regional Trading Blocs](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/regional-trading-blocs-in-the-world-economic-system/9780881322026) in the [World Economic System](https://www.piie.com/bookstore/regional-trading-blocs-world-economic-system)*[, (](http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/72.html)[Peterson Institute for International Economics](https://www.piie.com/bookstore/regional-trading-blocs-world-economic-system)[,](http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/72.html) Washington DC[), ](http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/72.html)1997[.](http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/72.html) Rough draft: [Chapters 1-3](/file_url/571); [Chapters 4-6](/file_url/572).  
Draft of [Chapters 4-6,, includes "The Gravity Model of Bilateral Trade."](/file_url/974) 1996.

 [The Regionalization of the World Economy, University of Chicago Pres](https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c7824/c7824.pdf)s, Chicago, 1997. Introduction..

 ["Regionalization of World Trade and Currencies: Economics and Politics"](https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c7824/c7824.pdf), with Shang-Jin Wei, in *[The Regionalization of the World Economy](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3628792.html)*, J. Frankel, editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997.

 "Continental Trading Blocs: Are They [Natural, or SuperNatural?](https://policycommons.net/artifacts/1381417/continental-trading-blocs/1995683/)" with Ernesto Stein and Shang-Jin Wei, in *[The Regionalization of the World Economy](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3628792.html)*, J. Frankel, ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. [NBER Working Paper No.4588](http://papers.nber.org/papers/W4588).

 Review of *New Dimensions in Regional Integration*, Jaime de Melo and Arvind Panagariya, editors (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press) 1993; paperback edition 1995; *Journal of Comparative Economics* 1996, 23, 335-338.

 ["Can Regional Blocs Be Stepping Stones to Global Free Trade?" (with Shang-Jin Wei), *International Review of Economics and Finance*, Vol. 5 no. 4, November 1995, 339-347.](http://users.nber.org/~wei/data/wei&frankel1996/wei&frankel1996.pdf)

 "Regional Trading Arrangements and Guatemala," Cuarto Ciclo de Jornadas Economicas, Banco de Guatemala, April 20, 1995. To be published (in Spanish) in Banca Central, Guatemala.

 "Economic Regionalism: Evidence from Two 20th Century Episodes," with Barry Eichengreen, [North American Journal of Economics and Finance 6, no.2, Fall 1995, 89-106](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/106294089590011X). Reprinted in *Hedging Bets on Growth in a Globalizing Industrial Order: Lessons for the Asian NIEs*, Lee-Jay Cho and Yoon Hyung Kim, eds. (Korea Development Institute Press, 1998), 89-119.

 [*Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia* (with Miles Kahler), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993.](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3621057.html)



 



 

 See also:- [ General ](/regional-trading-arrangements-terms/general)