globalization and cultural diversity. The chapter then presents various applications from trade in cultural goods, foreign direct …

, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …

International trade models typically assume that producers in one country trade directly with final consumers in … another. In reality, of course, trade can involve long chains of potentially independent actors who move goods through … wholesale and retail distribution networks. These networks likely affect the magnitude and nature of trade frictions and hence …

The paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the impact of corruption on bilateral trade using a data set comprising … nations does hinder cross-border transactions, differences between their ethical standards do have a negative impact on trade …. -- trade ; corruption ; EU membership …

This paper provides a mainly graphical summary of the trade matrices underlying the OECD’s international macroeconomic … between individual OECD countries and the main non-OECD regions, distinguishing trade in manufactures non-manufactures and non … trade. The sources and methods used to construct the matrices are also described in annexes ... …

This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade … preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade frictions. By comparing the predictions of these models against each other …, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …

Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews the theoretical and …