The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent … are already highly integrated in terms of trade and factor mobility. The potential discrimination effect against trade … to Europe. At the same time, so-called overlap or similarity indices for trade patterns show an increasing similarity …

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …

This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market … distributions are asymmetric because the foreign firm incurs a trade cost to serve the domestic market. We show that the foreign …, justifying the use of contingent trade policy on efficiency grounds. Despite an environment of asymmetric information, contingent …

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …

We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the … support of human capital choices to demonstrate that freer trade can induce crowding out of the middle occupations towards the … gains from trade may be non-monotonic in workers' ability, and middle ability agents can lose the most from trade …

The paper discusses the pros and cons of a Transatlantic free trade area (TAFTA) against the concept of an informal … trade-facilitating marketplace between Europe and the US. It finds considerably more cons expecially since TAFTA would be … separate insiders from outsiders. It is also shown that in foreign direct investment (FDI) and FDI-related service trade TAFTA …

submitting a wide range of trade-related policies to international scrutiny and by entering into binding commitments on the …