A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political … trade area for its members with respect to trade in goods and services and investment flows. It then looks at potential …

to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …, in contrast to the common view that China has become the dominant trade partner of most African nations. Using a panel … with exports to the rest of the world, suggesting that in contrast to trade diversion, trade with Asia complements exports …

trade restrictions, we provide further evidence on the indirect effects of sanctions. Analysing the impact on broader …

types of violence.Applying the gravity equation of international trade and the ppml high-dimensional fixed effects estimator … same time, globalisation has spun a net of global trade connections and has thus created dependencies, making everyone more … vulnerable to the repercussions of conflict. In this context, this paper analyses the relationship between trade and conflict …

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade … and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity … but also widely heterogeneous across sanctioning countries. Moreover, they depend on the direction of trade. We also …