The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger … number produces more manufactured goods than the other country does. In the bilateral trade the advanced country exports …

Despite the strong pace of globalization, the distance effect on trade is persistent or even growing over time (Disdier … significantly reducing the downward bias from omitting zero trade flows than it reduces the upward bias from omitting the number of … heterogeneous exporting firms. Furthermore, we show that including zero-trade flows cannot solve the distance puzzle when using HMR …

The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This …

extent of trade conflict resolution within the WTO. Both the SPS and TBT Committees address a significant number of ‘specific … trade concerns’ (STCs) that in the overwhelming majority of cases do not become formal disputes. The STCs address … appears as if Committee work on STCs significantly helps defuse potential trade frictions concerning national policies in the …

role of NT in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from the perspective of economic theory. Having established …, here we focus on the understanding of the key terms implementing the purpose of NT by GATT and World Trade Organization …