After the Visegrad countries’ accession to the EU in 2004, one of the most remarkable developments was the sudden upturn in their mutual trade. In 2007 the value of aggregate intra-Visegrad trade was two and a half times higher than in 2003. The rate of growth in these countries’ trade with...

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of diagonal cumulation on free trade agreement (FTA) utilization by exploring Thai exports to Japan under two kinds of FTA schemes. While the one scheme adopts bilateral cumulation, the other scheme does diagonal cumulation. Comparing trade...

In this article, using a simplified three-country Copeland and Taylor (1999) model, we analyse the welfare effects of a free trade agreement (FTA)/economic partnership agreement (EPA), given the existence of trans-boundary pollution. We investigate the case where the developed home country J...