paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring … understood, a sufficient condition for all countries to gain from fragmentation is that the relative world prices of initially … results in interesting subtleties as initially-traded goods change their trade status following fragmentation. I illustrate …

stages is bounded only by the fragmentation of the underlying engineering process, and lower frictions monotonically increase …

paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of production activities to try to capture the specific features of …

This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance, institutions, and regional … infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development … : every one point improvement in governance results in a 1 to 1.5 point rise in regional infrastructure. Countries (and …

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between economic growth and governance performance in Asian developing …, the state of governance in Asia is not stellar by international comparison. Indeed, a majority of these countries seem to … suffer from a governance deficit. Second, contrary to our expectation, data do not suggest any strong positive link between …

The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing … Asias trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of the linkages between governance and … trade at the Asian subregional level. Our results indicate that all individual governance indicators except regulatory …