Download or read book The Impact of Trade Agreements in Latin America using the Synthetic Control Method written by Swarnali Ahmed Hannan and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper employs synthetic control method (SCM) to determine the impact of trade agreements for 64 Latin American country pairs in the period 1989-1996. The results suggest that trade agreements have markedly boosted exports in Latin America, on an average by 76.4 percentage points over ten years. However, there is variation across countries and agreements. The export gains due to trade agreements are lower than the world average comprising 104 country pairs in the period 1983-1995.