facilitated by improving connectivity through increased investment in connecting infrastructure such as transport and …In last few decades, Asian production networks have contributed significantly toward the rapid trade expansion and …, the ability of the rest of the world to absorb Asia’s exports has decreased. Export production in some Asian countries has …

been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc … to theoretically unmotivated attempts to allow for both complete and incomplete specialization influences on gross trade … patterns. This view reveals that countries’ multilateral specialization incentives drive bilateral trade, corresponding to and …

–horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of … investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade integration by estimating the magnitude and evolution of the home … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …

empirical model which takes into account both that preferential trade agreement membership is endogenous and that the world … the structural, non-(log-)linear impact of trade barriers on trade in new trade theory models. Structural new trade theory … models have never been used to evaluate and quantify the role of endogenous preferential trade agreement (PTA) membership for …

Using annual data for the period 1992-2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners … in Asia, North America and Europe, and whether increasing trade has led to industrial structural adjustment and changes … in China’s trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …

restore competitiveness, avoid carbon leakage, and reduce world carbon emissions. We analyze the effects of carbon tariffs on … trade, welfare, and carbon emissions in a structural gravity model. We find that the introduction of carbon tariffs reduces … massively shifted from these countries to industrialized countries and world carbon emissions decrease by 0.83 percent, with a …

commodities, this infrastructure may bias a country’s structure of transport costs in favor of overseas trade, and to the …Mine-related transport infrastructure specializes in connecting mines to the coast, and not so much to neighboring … countries. This is most clearly seen in developing countries, whose transport infrastructure was originally designed to …

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant … support to the pollution haven hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly total trade, or … its components (pollution intensive trade and pollution intensive trade related to non-resource-based trade). …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … the world’s five largest importers for the period from 2002-2006, we find that the reporting gaps are highly correlated …