Regional integration is often considered a means to improve member countries’ attractiveness to foreign direct … investment (FDI). But regional integration agreements (RIAs) as well as FDI are too diverse to allow for generalized verdicts …. Our case studies on Mercosur in Latin America, ASEAN and SAARC in Asia, and SADC in sub-Saharan Africa caution against …

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. …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the … integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing …

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 …