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 …

model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core … effects found in the CP model by making the range of trade costs for which the core-periphery equilibrium occurs smaller. The …

stemming from terms-of-trade improvements and reduced dependence on subsidized and protected industries. The paper also …

industries. It addresses two questions. Has the free trade agreement between the EC and EFTA reinforced the disciplinary effect … competition of the free trade agreement, even though the disciplinary effect of imports originating from the less developed …