, primarily in the area of insurance, but also in the diversification of asset holdings. We suggest in this paper that, with …, and towards a focus on insurance arrangements and the diversification of risks associated with climate change …

unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a … variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which … a smaller trade effect than other currency unions; it has a mildly stimulating effect at best. Third and most …

Recent literature has explored both physical and policy linkage between trade and environment. Here we explore linkage … through leverage in bargaining, whereby developed countries can use trade policy threats to achieve improved developing … country environmental management, while developing countries can use environmental concessions to achieve trade disciplines in …

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the … evolution of the trade and environment issue. Developments seem likely to be driven in the next few years as much by factors … outside the GATT/WTO as well as within it, as new global environmental arrangements, some with potentially large trade …

Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak … the consequences of a global trade war. What they offer to the large countries in return is largely non-trade benefits … guarantees of royalty arrangements affecting resources on state-owned lands). When evaluated alongside the regional trade …

separate country data files giving monthly trade performance for both the import and export sides throughout the crisis. We use …% by 1933, and placing Germany close to autarchy. In the 1998 Asian crisis trade impacts were much smaller since export …This paper documents and compares the trade performance of the major Asian economies both during and following the 2008 …

This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of … motivated geographical trade arrangements, including carbon free trade areas. We first suggest that trade policy is likely to be … next several decades will be growth more so than trade and its composition, and in turn, the size of trade seemingly …

This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the … difficulties these agreements create in moving to an Asian trade bloc centred on them …