The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) - suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular … intra-industry, trade ties have contributed to the EAC's resilience to external output shocks. More broadly, intra …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We … product markets have become increasingly integrated. Moreover, it can explain why the volume of trade between developed and …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing …

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements … macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained relatively scarce so far, in particular for the Euro area where trade and … from 2002-2012, to test the so-called trade-finance nexus. Since theoretical models stress that both flows might be …

its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration-trade …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and … membership in the bloc. -- Small states ; regional cooperation ; South-South migration ; South-North migration ; trade …

strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …-meaning expanding support for both strong-left and strong-right views-and pure rightward shifts in others. Specifically, trade …

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant … its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical … support to the pollution haven hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly total trade, or …

International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic … growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made … the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic …