Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community's (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

This paper analyses the causes of the precipitous fall in trade among the twelve CIS countries since 1990; points out … finding is that the decline in intra-C!S trade was initiated by the institutional void left by the collapse of the central … planning system. However, the high volume of trade among the former Soviet republics reflected largely their isolation from the …

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant … progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia … occupation. In addition, a trade entropy analysis and gravity model estimates show that European integration of the Baltic states …

The analysis of Baltic trade statistics and gravity estimates reveal that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have rapidly … common market which pays particular attention to close trade relations with their immediate neighbours in the Baltic Sea …

The paper discusses the relevance of past concerns about trade and foreign direct investment diversion to the detriment …), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … nineties rather than by SMP-induced trade barriers. Concerning integration widening toward Central and Eastern Europe (CEE …

of time consistency of liberalization under the so-called Bogor target of achieving free trade within APEC in 2010 (2020 …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

. Our case studies on Mercosur in Latin America, ASEAN and SAARC in Asia, and SADC in sub-Saharan Africa caution against …, and the Rep. of South Africa have played a minor role so far in fostering effective regional integration through outward …

This paper analyses the prospects and problems of a Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) between the European Union … and the United States. Possible economic reasons for the proposal of TAFFA such as the intensity of bilateral trade and a … costs due to the internal and external consequences. The main problem of a free trade area between the two most important …