Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transaction costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to … trade integration than import tariffs. By estimating a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on … income, infrastructure, transaction costs and trade of selected Asian economies, this paper shows that the transaction costs …

Latin America. Potential for expansion of trade in the post-crisis period is highest for countries such as China. However …This study estimates the trade potential for India using an augmented Gravity model and then attempts to determine the … importance of trade remedies. Based on the panel data, this Gravity model is the first-ever attempt to estimate India’s trade …

- led Asian growth has revealed the role of FDI as a financial gravity for trade integration in the APEC region. Analyses of … the additions of trade complementarity and FDI flows as gravity variables of emerging significance, suggest that 1) APEC … the mid 1980s with reductions in trade distortions; and 4) inward FDI is a significant determinant of the direction of …

This paper examines how the industry-level FDI-export sales relationship is affected by the host nation’s status as an … “export platform” (EP). Using Japanese FDI and export sales data into 35 host countries during the period 1989-1998 for 7 ISIC … 2-digit industries, we find that the FDI-export sales relationship is industry-specific and sensitive to the host …

unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …

This paper documents business cycles’ fluctuations in Chinese provinces. China’s de facto federalism, within a context … factors like distance and size as well as policy factors such as industrial, fiscal and trade policy. Results emphasize the … benefits of domestic trade and local fiscal policy rationalization on the stabilization of output fluctuations. However, they …

In this paper we use a gravity model in order to estimate the magnitude of potential trade flows between Greece and … implemented trade between Greece and thirty trade partners are estimated by using the method of Seemingly Unrelated Regression …

Food safety and the trade-off between precaution and increased agricultural exports are at the forefront of policy … of standards on global food trade patterns. The paper estimates the effect of aflatoxin standards in 15 importing (4 …

the signature of many free trade areas with countries/blocs outside the region (i.e. US and EU). The purpose of this paper … is to investigate the potential of trade of the GCC countries within the context of the old and the emerging preference … trade arrangements in the region of Middle East and North African Countries (MENA). A gravity trade model was estimated …

Using the clustering analysis and gravity model, this paper investigates the evolution of likely trade-bloc phenomenon … the other rising bloc of countries around Pacific Rim. For the automatic data processing industry, only one trade bloc …