The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant … developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … trade liberalization, as the results vary significantly across the scenarios. In general, we find that tariff elimination …

company to promote trade. In 1934, the Consortium, a collective organization of producers, introduced controls to improve … quality control of Parmigiano-Reggiano were influenced more by the demands of the trade than by changes in production …

negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) affect these two sectors, to analyze the evolution of export and import volumes …

This research analyses the impacts of a scientific advance that improves animal welfare, upon the environment and trade … (pig meat) and further on trade flows (trade in pig meat) and environment (water and air pollution). We consider two animal … scenario) and the case of improving pig neonatal survival (alternative scenario) and compare the impacts on trade and …

This paper aims at examining the relation between the international trade and the environment, particularly focused on … following the traditional approach (trade-off or neoclassical), while others supporting the Porter’s hypothesis, which considers … that impacts of the stricter environmental regulation can benefit the trade competitiveness. A Heckscher-Ohlin- Vanek model …

in recent trade research. Existing theories differ, however, in their conclusion regarding the relation between trade in … evaluating the effects of regional trade areas as established by the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. This paper offers an … empirical analysis of the connection between trade and FDI flows in the agribusiness sector in the context of the Euro …

The present study examines factor content in the CEE transition country agricultural trade. However, deviating from the … content of international trade to cross-country differences in technology and endowments. Our empirical findings suggest that … imperfections in determining factor content in agricultural production and trade. We find that technological differences and factor …

trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …

of trade and financial openness. Using a large crosssection of 91 countries covering the period 1985-2004, we establish … two main empirical regularities. Both higher trade and financial openness i) reduce central bank?s inflation bias …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …