1年ほど前にロドリックの「What did NAFTA really do?」というエントリを紹介したことがあったが、そのロドリックが「What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?」というNBER論文を上げている(ungated版)。 以下はその要旨。 As trade agreements have evolved and gone beyond import tariffs and quotas into regulatory rules and harmonization, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory. Nevertheless, most economists continue to regard trade agreements such as