Patterns of new member states’ international trade in intermediate products (by Robert Stehrer; pp. 1-6) Keywords … intermediate products, international trade Countries covered New EU Member States Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and … imports, trade, productivity Countries covered CEE, SEE Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy The central bank as hedge …

In this paper we attempt to quantify the incidence of different types of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) on trade … the topic analysed in a quantitative manner. We start in this paper by reporting the most important facts on CEE-EU trade …' position with respect to export unit values. Second, we try to quantify the coverage of technical barriers to trade in the …

approach. After using regional data on trade and initial and final tariffs (a ‘2020 SEE-EUaccession and world … unilateral trade policy changes was applied to the countries of Southeast Europe in order to measure the costs of protection in … the region. The model is a multiregion, imperfect substitutes model of world trade employing a partial equilibrium …

inequality on trade prices. Based on a large dataset with bilateral HS6 level data on 1260 final goods categories from more than …

from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz-type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors … welfare gains from trade liberalization are larger in countries with lower substitution elasticity. Furthermore, it is shown … that the immobile production factor in the comparative disadvantage sector can still gain from trade liberalization due to …

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we explore empirically to what extent the determinants of trade in … services differ from those of trade in goods. Second, by the use of instrumental variables, we explore potential … complementarities between bilateral trade in goods and bilateral trade in services. Using a gravity framework, the main results show …

In this paper we consider the trade creating effects of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) for a large sample of …

firms that are engaged in international trade perform significantly better than those firms that trade on the domestic …