compound the effects of restrictive trade policies. This paper explores the issue of transparency with respect to the use of … export restrictions, especially focusing on the question of what information governments applying them make publicly … available. After explaining how transparency is operationalised in the conduct of trade policy and what its benefits are for …

practices found in WTO and regional trade agreements and good governance guidelines. Additionally, feedback was sought through a … small business survey. The list provides guidance with respect to such questions as what, when and how information about … general public informed at different stages of developing and implementing export restrictions and identifies information …

Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation … of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time … that trade logistics play in the volume and value of international trade and the extent to which poor quality logistics …

Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key … components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single … gains through the import of intermediate inputs and capital goods and systematically explores the specific impacts of non-trade …

well as in their internationalisation process. This affects many dimensions of each economy, most notably their trade … mind, the purpose of this paper is to consider the evolution of trade and labour market outcomes in Denmark and Spain since … the early 1990s, in order to provide policy-relevant insights on the relationship between production, trade and labour …

Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of … exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an … unequivocally clear picture of the trade impacts of changes in exchange rates. The impact of exchange rate volatility on trade also …

This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds … on the burgeoning literature relating trade and labour markets, taking into account theories of firm-level trade and … covering trade, economic variables and employment for the time period from 1995 to 2004. The data set covers manufacturing …