This paper provides an overview of trade reform in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) since 1996 and … a quantitative assessment of potential effects on trade patterns and tariff revenue of the current reform agenda …. Despite evidence of significant trade complementarities within WAEMU, implementation of the union's current trade regime still …

? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have minor trade linkages and face asymmetrical patterns of shocks. This …

This paper analyzes export performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) using a gravity model applied to … panel data. It addresses two questions: (i) are there significant unexploited export markets for the MENA region?; and (ii … countries are substantially underexploiting the United States as an export market. Moreover, the impact of integration efforts …

The paper analyses the potential trade impact of the forthcoming East African Community (EAC) customs union. It … examines the trade linkages among the member countries of the EAC and the extent to which the introduction of the EAC common … external tariff will liberalize their trade regimes. To gauge the potential trade impact of the formation of the customs union …

The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade flows was examined by a 1984 IMF study on G-7 countries. Over the past … exchange hedging instruments, may have reduced the impact of volatility on trade flows. Using recent advances in the economic … theories on trade and in statistical methodologies, this paper revisits this important issue by taking into account these new …

This paper examines the relationship between fixed exchange rate arrangements and trade using a gravity model of … international trade together with bilateral trade data from 24 countries from the Caribbean and Latin America for the period 1960 …-2001. The analysis indicates that a credible fixed peg has a positive impact on the value of bilateral trade. Moreover, the …

This paper estimates a gravity model to address the issue of whether intra-Arab trade is too little. Although gravity … models have been extensively used to measure bilateral trade among countries, they have—to the best of our knowledge …—never been used to measure intra-Arab trade. Our results suggest that intra-Arab trade and Arab trade with the rest of the world …

coordination to further promote trade and investment and developing a common human skills base with the PRD. Regional cooperation …

both samples that the effect of currency unions on trade is large, almost a doubling; currency unions are associated with … trade creation, increase price co-movements among members, and make trade more stable; and longer duration of currency union …