This paper investigates the role of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on bilateral international migration. By … increasing the information on the potential destination country, RTAs may favour bilateral migration flows among member countries …. Building on the gravity model for migration by Anderson (2011), our econometric strategy controls for the multilateral …

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business … networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of … migrants employed in managerial/business-related occupations has a strong additional effect on trade, and especially on exports …

Since the global crisis, China's foreign trade is no longer driven by its involvement in the global supply chains (i ….e. by processing trade) but its dynamics stems from China’s own domestic demand and supply. For foreign funded enterprises … growing involvement in ordinary trade. The demand for high-end consumer goods has benefited European exporters, especially to …

Since 2007 China has considerably reduced its external global imbalances. Its bilateral trade surpluses with the EU and …