Conference Proceedings
NAFTA at 20: Effects on the North American Market
“NAFTA at 20: Effects on the North American Market,” held June 5–6, 2014, brought together leading
academic and government researchers for a conference that explored the realities of the landmark trade
agreement. The gathering was sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the U.S. International
Trade Commission, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD),
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía and El Colegio de México. The conference was held at the
Houston Branch of the Dallas Fed.
Updated Compilation and Editing, November 2017
- Complete Proceedings
- A Conference Viewing Two Decades of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Preface: Beyond Winners and Losers: Assessing Impacts
Irving A. Williamson - Executive Summary: NAFTA at 20: Effects on the North American Market
Justino De La Cruz
Articles
- Chapter 1: The Challenges of Predicting the Impact of Trade Reforms
Timothy J. Kehoe - Chapter 2: Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA
Fernando Parro - Chapter 3: Predicting the Effects of NAFTA: Now We Can Do It Better!
Serge Shikher - Chapter 4: Identifying the Effects of NAFTA on the U.S. Economy Between 1992 and
1998: A Decomposition Analysis
Peter B. Dixon and Maureen T. Rimmer - Chapter 5: Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Mexico: 1940–2013
José Romero - Chapter 6: Gone to Texas: Immigration and the Transformation of the Texas Economy
Pia M. Orrenius - Chapter 7: International Competition and Industrial Evolution: Evidence from the Impact
of Chinese Competition on Mexican Maquiladoras
Hale Utar and Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz - Chapter 8: NAFTA: Retrospect and Prospect
Anne O. Krueger - Chapter 9: The Impact of NAFTA on U.S. Labor Markets
Justino De La Cruz and David Riker - Chapter 10: NAFTA and the Transformation of Canadian Patterns of Trade
Specialization, 1990–2012
Richard Harris and Nicolas Schmitt - Chapter 11: The Producer Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalization When Goods Are
Perishable and Habit-forming: The Case of Asparagus
Peyton Ferrier and Chen Zhen - Chapter 12: North American Energy: A Clear Path Forward?
Kenneth B. Medlock III - Chapter 13: NAFTA and Mexican Industrial Development
Eric A. Verhoogen - Chapter 14: NAFTA Rules of Origin: Adaptation in North America and Emulation
Abroad
Antoni Estevadeordal and Jeremy T. Harris - Chapter 15: Border Crossing for Trucks Twenty Years after NAFTA
Pilar Londoño-Kent and Alan K. Fox - Chapter 16: Designing a Greenhouse Gas Emission Market for Mexico
Jaime Sempere - Chapter 17: Income in the Border Region, 1993–2010
James Gerber - Chapter 18: Wage Convergence in Mexico
André Varella Mollick and René Cabral - Chapter 19: The North American Integration Model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Shenjie Chen, and Catherine Milot - Chapter 20: The Future of NAFTA: A Policy Perspective
Justino De La Cruz, Alan V. Deardorff, Richard G. Harris, Timothy J. Kehoe, and José Romero - About the Contributors