The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably … factoring has a positive effect in allowing SMEs to access international trade, in countries in which it is available. Factoring …

This paper surveys a wide body of economic literature on the relationship between currencies and trade. Specifically …, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency … misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative (even if not large) impact on trade flows. The extent of this …

development banks, export credit agencies, to mobilize greater flows of trade finance for developing countries, with a view to … help them integrate in world trade. As an institution geared towards the balanced expansion of world trade, the WTO is in … the business of making trade possible. Its various functions include reducing trade barriers, negotiating and implementing …

the on-going crisis of the financial sector on its ability to supply trade finance to support trade at affordable rates … now regularly hit by the contagion of financial crises, with potentially very harmful spill-overs on global trade through … the structural gaps in the availability of trade finance in low-income countries - ad hoc programs have been designed to …

Trade finance has received special attention during the financial crisis as one of the potential culprits for the great … trade collapse. Several researchers have used micro level data to establish the link between trade finance and trade …, especially so during the financial crisis, and have found diverting results. This paper analyses the effect of trade credit on …

institutions, regional development banks, export credit agencies, to mobilize sufficient flows of trade finance to off-set some of … the past two years. Given that 80 to 90% of trade transactions involve some form of credit, insurance or guarantee, one … can reasonably say that supply-side driven shortages of trade finance have a potential to inflict further damages to …

The paper discusses a number of issues related to the treatment of trade credit internationally, a priori (treatment by … interest to the trade finance community, in particular the traditional providers of trade credit and guarantees, such as banks … this analysis. Traditionally, trade finance has received preferred treatment on the part of national and international …

integrate in world trade. The paper uses a combination of techniques, from an analysis of disaggregated trade flows by country … and sectors, to the calculation of trade intensity indices by country and sector, and value-added trade by sector. It … finds combined evidence of forward and backward trade increasing between several neighbouring Asian economies and China, in …

Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre …) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade slowdown, and related falling trade-to-income elasticity, was … the prominent role of aggregate demand, notably when weighted by its trade component. Our paper goes in this latter …