Does AFTA Create More Trade for Thailand? An Investigation of Some Key Trade Indicators

This paper examines whether the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) creates trade for Thailand or actually diverts it away from the country. It does this by analyzing various trade indicators: the Export Similarity Index, the Intra-Industry Trade Index, and Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) rank co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piriya Pholphirul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-04-01
Series:Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/209