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 …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …

we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition … institutional development …

development and even more robust than variables measuring the integration into the EU. This allows for some optimism about the …

Picture a small open economy in the North Atlantic Ocean, highly dependent on trade with the EU and NAFTA. How … affect the export sectors? A unique version of the gravity model is applied here using an inverse hyperbolic sine function …. Typically, the export volume is significantly impacted by the economic size of the exporting country, but in this case it is not …

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 …

dim prospects of a successful conclusion of the Doha Round notwithstanding, global trade regime remains open and the … institution in charge of it, the World Trade Organization, is in sound health. If anything, the Doha Round has been a victim of …

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 …