Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

recent ARTNeT working papers as well as other relevant literature: (a) trade facilitation and regional trade agreements and … initiatives; (b) trade facilitation and customs valuation; and (c) trade facilitation and services. …

We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … framework in explaining German trade and FDI activity. Looking carefully at cross-variable linkages we basically find … substitutive links between trade flows and outward FDI in line with earlier empirical evidence for Germany. Building upon German …

inflows and its international trade integration has advanced considerably. In this study, we take a closer look at the … Trade- and FDI-led growth in a dynamic error correction modelling framework. Our results indicate that, in the long …-run relationship, regional labour productivity is indeed driven by direct and indirect spatial effects of FDI and trade activity next …

This article applies the novel concept of global panel cointegration to analyze the role played by trade and foreign … the period 1976-2008, the approach allows us to identify the magnitude of direct trade and FDI effects as well as spatial …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …