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 …

. 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 …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … the China shock. The main lessons learned in this review are: (i) the aggregate gains from U.S.-China trade created …

terms of Oman–Asia trade relationship and in particular the need for more policy intervention to liberalise the non …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 …

answer to this question is of interest given the highly resource-intensive nature of China's growth, and is important for … construction as a driver of China's demand for resource-intensive metal products. Second, it shows that global trade in non …Is China's demand for resources driven predominantly by domestic factors or by global demand for its exports? The …

We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern …-throat competition between CESEE and China. The decomposition of export growth along the extensive versus the intensive margin shows that …) contributed most strongly to export growth in both regions, whereas the contribution of new trade links (i.e. the extensive margin …

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 …