This paper reexamines the relationship between trade integration and business cycle synchronization (BCS) using new … value-added trade data for 63 advanced and emerging economies during 1995–2012. In a panel framework, we identify a strong … positive impact of trade intensity on BCS—conditional on various controls, global common shocks and country …

€™s exports. Although rising trading links with China have allowed African countries to diversify their export base across … countries, away from advanced economies, they have also led SSA countries to become more susceptible to spillovers from China …

the RoW, but has also gradually drifted away from the G7 in favour of the BRICs. Trade with the BRICs turns out to be the … strongest driver of this shift. Much of this impact unfolds through aggregate demand impulse from trade. As fiscal policy …

private sector), the exchange rate, as well as the wheat support price as a supply-side factor that has received considerable …. Changes in the wheat support price influence inflation in the short run, but not in the long run. Furthermore, the wheat …

the sample period. The Granger causality test suggests that private sector credit and world wheat prices are the leading …

We examine how Korea’s capital flows and trade have been affected by the quantitative easing (QE) of the United … in the world market for trade. We find that QE had little direct impact on capital flows to Korea, and tapering is … the exchange rate spillover from QQME to Korea has been limited both on trade and capital flow fronts. …

This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry …-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, sectors more open to … international trade are more volatile. Second, trade is accompanied by increased specialization. Third, sectors that are more open …

International trade is vital for economic prosperity in Pacific island countries, but their trade performance has been … center presents Pacific island countries with an unprecedented opportunity to develop trade with Asia, particularly in …