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 …

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 …

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 …

applying a general equilibrium model to the Turkish economy. The numerical results show that the CU is not trade diverting …

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 …

) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility …

pursued through trade policy (e.g. raising fiscal revenue, protecting industries, regional integration) must be defined … regional integration with Russia (free trade area vs. customs union with joint GATT membership) must not discriminate against …