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 …

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels …. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically …, the role played by each trade component has not yet received enough attention. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by …

on trade patterns and industrialization. We propose a multi-industry and two-country trade model featuring demand …

the beggar-thy-neighbor view: (i) undervaluation of the domestic currency improves the domestic trade balance; and most … importantly, (ii) undervaluation of the domestic currency negatively impacts the other countries' trade balances. Starting from … currency undervaluation is robustly and significantly associated with an improvement of the domestic trade balance. We also …

international trade. It provides new evidence about the effect of a gap in environmental policies between trading partners on trade … downsizing environmental degradation. Second, the effect of these revealed environmental policies is assessed on bilateral trade …

This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade. The impact of … landlockedness on Central Asian's trade costs is split into several components, using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large … landlockedness considered in this study are also great impediments to trade. Either diminishing the extra overland costs or enhancing …

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 …

In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …