negative effects of volatility on trade, contrary to a three decades-old literature that is characterised by weak and …

Since the early nineties, there has been a veritable boom in the market for all sorts of trade agreements, from … been joined by the United States with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), followed by the Asia …-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and the - although unsuccessful - Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) initiative, and as …

This paper shows empirically that China's trade balance is sensitive to fluctuations in the Renminbi real effective … exchange rate. However, the current size of the 'trade surplus is such that exchange rate policy, alone, will probably not be … able to address the imbalance. The reduction in the trade surplus is limited mainly because Chinese imports do not react as …

Using regional data, we analyze the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 for a system of gravity … substitutive links between trade and outward FDI. However, switching to a (macro-)regional perspective, we reveal additional … emphasizes the need to take into account the regional dimension in analyzing cross-variable linkages between trade and FDI. …