This paper investigates empirically whether the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement had a building bloc or stumbling bloc effect … effects for Malaysia. This suggests that overall the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has rather helped than hindered non …-discriminatory trade liberalization. …

Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries, the People’s Republic … of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage … and available factor endowments. In view of the recent wave of worldwide subregional and bilateral trade cooperation, and …

Economists have recently begun trying to explain that pattern of Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) formation around the … implemented, in the sense that they positively and significantly increase trade flows between member countries compared to the …

-EC-AR gravity model of trade to measure the effects of ATC quotas phasing out and NAMA negotiations on trade pattern. The results … fact that these results may underestimate the effects of quotas phasing out on T&C trade pattern, the model’s structure … include other trade partners and new variables. …

This paper considers tax competition and tax harmonization in the presence of agglomeration forces and falling trade …

track all changes in the trade structure and competitiveness over time. The long-term trend of the indicators suggests that … the Austrian foreign trade sector was able to maintain its market share in the global environment. While the Austrian … foreign trade performance only slightly deviates from the pattern of the traditional industrialised countries, a strong …