We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … trade links, applying highly disaggregated data at the 6 digit HS level over the period 1995 – 2010. We show that the most … shares and comparative advantage. We show that the number of trade links at the product level where both regions are active …

to describe the underlying forces linking trade with factor prices. I argue that missing regional and related inter …-sectoral labor mobility might be a potential factor preventing employees from taking advantage of trade liberalization. To …

, similar to the one in Caliendro and Parro (2011). As with a large number of quantitative trade models, the gains crucially …

indicators based on a value added rather than gross trade basis and emphasis on the actual (domestic) value added creation due to … exports are needed for policy-makers and researchers to draw a more accurate picture of the link between trade and value added … established in the literature such as the degree of vertical specialisation, value added trade and global value chain income, we …

This paper investigates the process of trade integration between the enlarged European Union and the Newly Independent …). The paper analyses the evolution of the regional and commodity composition of trade in the countries concerned. A detailed … market share analysis reveals the emerging trade specialization patterns. There has been a general trade reorientation of …

Trade economists have for long considered gravity models to estimate unexhausted potentials for bilateral trade …. Similar to the discrepancy between "normal" and "actual" bilateral trade, one may ask the question about the difference … heteroscedasticity are very important, even more so than with trade data. Therefore, this paper suggests using generalized linear rather …

.e. production fragmentation. The increased importance of fragmentation in world trade has created an interest among trade economists … in explaining the determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in intermediate goods. In this study the extent of IIT in … Austria’s auto-parts trade is analyzed by decomposing Austria’s auto-parts trade into one-way trade, vertical IIT and …

Against the background of a changing landscape of trade and investment governance in the 21st century, characterised by … the proliferation of deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs), this paper econometrically tests the importance of global … value chain trade and regulatory differences in explaining the likelihood of a country pair to include an (enforceable …