The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing … regional income. Such a supposition evokes questions on the need of an accompanying compensatory regional policy and its … adequate design. I find that a case for regional policy cannot be denied, but that the EU largely overstates the need for such …

-favored-nation tariffs in most cases. This paper discusses the possible welfare-increasing effects of trade liberalization between the … liberalization. The paper discusses this finding and derives the implications for trade policies of the EU and NAFTA. … European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA). The conceivable welfare consequences deducted from economic …

”. Lessons for European Neighborhood Policy point to the requirement for the EU to liberalize bilateral service trade (through …Recent empirical research on efficiency gains for Russia from WTO membership concludes that service trade … liberalization especially through allowing foreign suppliers to invest in Russian service industries promises the largest gains. This …

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 …

differences in factor endowments inside Asia but also differences in access conditions (trade policy). Growth in intra- Asian …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 …

recessions tend to lead to falling trade and protectionism. The sensitivity of trade to global economic conditions is not simply … driven by policy: rather, in a model of costly search, firms who are engaged in a searching process are very sensitive to …