@article{Yeboah:139423,
      recid = {139423},
      author = {Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman and Shaik, Saleem and Wozniak, Shawn  J. and Allen, Albert J.},
      title = {Does the WTO Increase Trade? The Case of U.S. Cocoa  Imports from WTO-Member Producing Countries},
      journal = {Journal of Food Distribution Research},
      address = {2011-07},
      number = {856-2016-57990},
      pages = {11},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This study analyzes U.S. cocoa bean imports from  twenty-one major cocoa-producing and exporting countries  during
the pre- and post-liberalization period of 1970-2008  using the gravity equation and a linear one-way fixed  effects
model. The objective was to measure trade creation  for a World Trade Organization (WTO) member that has  undergone
trade liberalization. Cocoa beans can serve as a  proxy for any tropical commodity upon which a  developing
country heavily relies on for export revenue,  such as is the case with cocoa for Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana,  for example.
Our results find participation in free trade  agreements (FTAs) and WTO membership do contribute to  increased
U.S. cocoa bean imports at the one percent and  five percent confidence levels, respectively.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/139423},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.139423},
}