or common market, whereas international insecurity deters the formation of preferential and free trade agreements …

analysis we attempt to emphasize the links and importance of transportation costs for the trade literature and we outline … avenues where we believe interdisciplinary contributions between the international trade and transportation economics fields …

CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral … trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject to rigid standards will find it easier to enter Japanese markets. On … expected for both the countries compared to BAU 2020. A fair amount of trade creation within these two countries is expected to …

Trade costs are often cited as an important determinant of the volume of trade. This paper provides enough evidence to … ascertain that today's trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include "behind … transaction costs along with trade infrastructure facilities have significant influence on regional trade flows in Northeast Asia …

– horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of … investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade integration by estimating the magnitude and evolution of the home … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …

This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure … of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance …. This trade integration measure is consistent with a broad range of recent trade models including the Anderson and van …

all endogenously determined and respond to trade integration in a way that is consistent with empirical evidence. Using … Canada-US regional data, we structurally estimate the model and simulate the impacts of removing all trade barriers generated …

trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration … of economic integration agreements (EIAs) on members’ trade may be biased upward owing to inadequate control for … intranational trade); we find evidence of this bias using a properly specified gravity equation. Second, our novel methodology …

proxy for interprovincial trade and vulnerability of regions to idiosyncratic shocks. Interprovincial trade and similarity … in factor endowments tend to make shocks more symmetric. Surprisingly, foreign trade and inward FDI have little effect on …