If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …

dispersion - agglomeration configuration when regional and/or international trade are liberalised. Two main results are found …-shaped but strictly decreasing when impediments to trade are removed. This turns out to be a convenient framework to revisit the … links between tax competition, location of firms and trade integration. It is shown in particular that trade liberalization …

expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …

involving elements of trade policy reform. This study reviews country experiences with respect to the impact of reforms of trade … and trade-related policies on economic performance, export capacity and the ability to attract foreign direct investment …. Trade policy reform can be crucial for success in international markets. Opening domestic markets will change relative …

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for India’s trade, using both econometrics and …

and exogenous test. I will use the World Trade Database to systematically test this hypothesis in a gravity model of trade …

Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were … report recommended that the CER rules of origin, which confine access to trade concessions to goods produced in Australia or …

There is a considerable body of analysis available that aims to quantify the economic and trade effects of textile and …. Different tools and approaches have thereby been used to evaluate the impacts of textile trade reform at the regional or global … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …

Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates … positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … significant positive spillover effects of intra-industry trade that corresponds to international outsourcing. …

Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It … declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that … money has nothing to do with traded output, but everything to do with storing value. But now a new trade theory takes over …