trading areas dramatically expanded to the shores of Asia, and a long period of harsh competition set the East India Companies … from their main base (in the best conditions). During the three centuries after Vasco de Gama had reached India, European …

East Asian trade performance with that of South Asia. The results suggest that East Asian trade, led by ASEAN, is … outperforming the world while South Asia lags behind significantly. Within East Asia, the transformation of China's trade … performance is remarkable with its accession to the WTO. Australia is efficiently integrated with East Asia and performing close …

among Asia, Europe, and United States (US). We first document changes in trade patterns of East Asia, Europe, and US and … heavily driven by external demand. However, macroeconomic interdependence among East Asia, Europe, and US is becoming more …We investigate changes in Asia's regional and global trade linkages and their influence on macroeconomic relationships …

The paper first analyzes the pattern of trade for China and India in the new century. We find that: (1) Both countries … export share keeps increasing whereas India maintains a stable but relatively small world exporting share in the new century …-industry manufacturing products. (4) China exports more complicated and sophisticated products than India, though the gap is narrowing down …

trade contributed to Europe's pacification between 1640 and 1896. While the decline in conflict in Europe during this period … Europe and the New World, which we use as a proxy for Atlantic trade. To identify the causal effects of Atlantic trade, we … army and navy sizes in Europe. Second, we show that the possibility of forgone Atlantic trade acted as a deterrent to …