This paper aims to evaluate the trade potential of manufactured products between the members of the EU25 in the … project the “natural” trade relations between them. Relatively to previous evaluations of trade potential, we include in the … gravity model a variable related to the countries’ complementarities in terms of their Commodity Composition of Trade and we …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a … significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties. …

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …

This paper analyzes the effects of EU integration on intra-EU trade volumes with a special focus on trade within and …-periphery growth of trade has experienced stronger positive effects than intra-core trade. An extrapolation of the estimation results … suggests that intra-periphery trade and intracore trade will intensify in course of ”typical” additional enlargements at the …

We calculate welfare gains of trade liberalization in the Central and East European transition economies, following the … approach of Romer (1994), who emphasized that proper modeling of the impact of trade restrictions on the number of available … product varieties is crucial to quantifying the welfare impact of trade liberalization. The empirical work relies on direct …

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization … analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR period and the years since independence revealed that unlike its close … trade. It is almost a good representation of reality to say that Belarus trades with Russia. The assessment of the rationale …

impact on bilateral trade, output co-movement and financial integration. Financial integration is measured by the degree of … the greatest effect, the peg regime also significantly boosts trade. We also find that, while the peg regime contributes …

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for India’s trade, using both econometrics and …

This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …

Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to … of international fragmentation of production in Europe, looking at how it affects relative labor demand. Models of trade … change in the relative factor intensities of the affected industries. We use international trade data specifically related to …