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 …

model. We find that there is a trade-off between the two roads of European integration arrangements. Eastern enlargement … the Union. EU-Russia integration, on the other hand, has a different impact. To be beneficial for Russia, free trade …

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 …

We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … intensive margins and the dynamics in the number of joint trade links (Dynamic Trade Link Analysis), applying highly … show that the number of trade links at the product level where both regions are active has increased substantially …

In large number of circumstances, trade policy modellers turn to partial equilibrium modelling in an imperfect … substitutes framework. This article develops a formal representation of this imperfect substitutes model and applies it to trade … these results within the history of Pakistan–India trade and the political economy of the negative list. …

could be pruned from the list taking into account their competitiveness, trade potentials and extent of revenue collected …