Have Bilateral Free Trade Agreements (BFTAs) been beneficial? Lessons learned from 11 U.S. BFTAs between 1992 and 2017

• Tareg Ghazi Alghabbabsheh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tareg Ghazi Alghabbabsheh, Saleh Saud AlSaif, Ali M. A. Mahmoud

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

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• Saleh Saud AlSaif ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tareg Ghazi Alghabbabsheh, Saleh Saud AlSaif, Ali M. A. Mahmoud

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Economics & Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Hail, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Md. Saiful Islam ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: saifecon@yahoo.com

  ¶‡ MSI and TSA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Economics & Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Hail, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-9921

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• Tareq Saeed AlShammari ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

  ¶‡ MSI and TSA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Law, College of Law, University of Hail, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Ali M. A. Mahmoud

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tareg Ghazi Alghabbabsheh, Saleh Saud AlSaif, Ali M. A. Mahmoud

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Economics, School of Politics and Economics, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

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