Preferential trade agreements are mushrooming in Asia. However, they have not been facilitating intra-regional trade as … parcel of all preferential agreements - have resulted in low utilization rates in Asia. The key driver of trade integration … in Asia has been the rise of China, and not preferential trade agreements. In the last two decades, Chinas has managed to …

This paper analyses the causes of the precipitous fall in trade among the twelve CIS countries since 1990; points out … finding is that the decline in intra-C!S trade was initiated by the institutional void left by the collapse of the central … planning system. However, the high volume of trade among the former Soviet republics reflected largely their isolation from the …

of time consistency of liberalization under the so-called Bogor target of achieving free trade within APEC in 2010 (2020 …

The paper discusses the relevance of past concerns about trade and foreign direct investment diversion to the detriment …), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … nineties rather than by SMP-induced trade barriers. Concerning integration widening toward Central and Eastern Europe (CEE …

The analysis of Baltic trade statistics and gravity estimates reveal that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have rapidly … common market which pays particular attention to close trade relations with their immediate neighbours in the Baltic Sea …

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant … progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia … occupation. In addition, a trade entropy analysis and gravity model estimates show that European integration of the Baltic states …

challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

The paper uses a gravity model to examine the role of corruption in the direction of trade in a data set comprising … membership of the RTAs does not always increase bilateral trade whereas reducing a country's corruption does tend to increase … trade flows. The results suggest that EU membership, with the associated improvement in the perceived level of corruption …

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 …