Employing data on the immigrant stocks of 43 African home countries who reside in 110 host countries and on trade flows … countries’ trade with the typical host country. Estimates from Tobit regression models indicate a one percent increase in the … African home country reveals that, in several instances, immigrants do not exert positive and significant influences on trade …

Preferential trade agreements have spread throughout Asia. However, they have not facilitated intra-regional trade as … agreements – have resulted in low utilization rates in Asia. The key driver of trade integration in Asia has instead been the … region. In 2011, China ran a trade deficit with its neighbouring countries whilst running surpluses with the USA and the EU …

Preferential trade agreements have spread throughout Asia. However, they have not facilitated intra-regional trade as … agreements - have resulted in low utilization rates in Asia. The key driver of trade integration in Asia has instead been the … region. In 2011, China ran a trade deficit with its neighbouring countries whilst running surpluses with the USA and the EU …

EFTA-CEEC trade using the gravity model of Wang and Winters (1991). The findings show that even at 1989 CEEC income levels …, EFTA-CEEC trade should have been four times greater than it was. Thus the CEEC markets should have been as important to … catch up to 70% of the EC's by 2005, 2010 and 2020. In this scenario, EFTA-CEEC trade grows at double digit rates for …

estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional trade flows. Results show that difficulties faced by developing … trade patterns, they do not seem to explain an important part of the border effect. Last, our theory-based measure offers a … respective trade impact. …

Trade liberalization in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland was accomplished in record time between 1989 and 1991 …. Sustainability became, however, a major concern in Central and Eastern Europe as the `honeymoon of trade liberalization' ended in … governments in favour of liberal trade policies. The focus is entirely on Hungary. The paper analyses trade policy formulation in …

Gravity models are used to explore the determinants of trade, making use of fixed effect linear estimators and a … Poisson estimator (as in Santos Silva and Tenreyro, 2006) with fixed effects. Beyond usual determinants of trade such as GDP …, distance, contiguity, free trade areas and language, this analysis mainly focuses on the role of product market regulation …

This paper investigates the determinants of trade between Oman and its major Asian trading partners in order to gauge … the impact of the process of trade liberalisation. The empirical findings based on the gravity model indicate that Oman … statistically insignificant effect of trade liberalisation on non-oil exports. These findings certainly have policy implications in …

This paper fits a gravity model to the trade of 76 market economies. It then applies the model to data on East European … mutual trade and trade with developing countries, but it will increase trade with industrial counties by factors of three to … thirty. West Germany and the USA are the principal beneficiaries of this new trade, increasing their exports and imports by …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …