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 …

firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …

impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia … gains are: (i) trade facilitation and reduction in border costs; (ii) services liberalization; and (iii) standards …

By using two alternative intra-industry trade models (1. - New goods cannot be introduced into the economy; 2. - The … obtained by using an imperfect competitive model, which embodies a sector bias technological change that arises from trade. In … addition, the gains from trade, insignificant under the standard trade hypotheses, are extraordinarily large when endogenous …

. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …

exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …

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 …