This paper fits a gravity model to the trade of 76 market economies. It then applies the model to data on East European … mutual trade and trade with developing countries, but it will increase trade with industrial counties by factors of three to … thirty. West Germany and the USA are the principal beneficiaries of this new trade, increasing their exports and imports by …

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade …: whether trade reform destroys markets or creates new ones, how it affects the ability to bear risk, how labour demand shocks …

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

We construct a three-country, two-bloc, multi-product trade model in which tariff agreements between customs union … liberalization of trade between customs union members (i.e. the deepening of regional integration) affects the sustainability of …

In this paper we use detailed trade and production data and a theoretically consistent model of demand - the Almost … Ideal Demand System - to estimate bilateral trade elasticities, the key parameters required for quantification of the …

We consider a simple three-country, multi-commodity trade model in which two custom union members that have … through the removal of tariffs on intra-union trade. Union and non-union countries cannot sign binding trade agreements. Owing …

conclusions include that regionalism may: help to liberalize very restrictive trade regimes; increase the vulnerability of less …