caa a22 4500 477078524 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00118655 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00118655 Hefeker Carsten Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Place du Congrès 1, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium aut Regional free trade and social integration [Elektronische Daten] [Carsten Hefeker] This paper analyzes recent free trade arrangements from a positive political economy perspective. In contrast to most other literature which fails to take into account geographical factors it is argued here that proximity and transportation costs play an important role in trade arrangements. Another important also largely neglected factor is the degree of social cohesion in terms of labor standards among potential trading partners. A political support maximizing government will consider these factors when balancing political support from free traders and protectionists. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 87/3-4(1996-06-01), 379-393 0048-5829 87:3-4<379 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118655 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118655 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hefeker Carsten Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Place du Congrès 1, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 87/3-4(1996-06-01), 379-393 0048-5829 87:3-4<379 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer