Regional integration is often considered a means to improve member countries’ attractiveness to foreign direct … investment (FDI). But regional integration agreements (RIAs) as well as FDI are too diverse to allow for generalized verdicts …. Our case studies on Mercosur in Latin America, ASEAN and SAARC in Asia, and SADC in sub-Saharan Africa caution against …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the … integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing …

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 …

trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent …In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the … are already highly integrated in terms of trade and factor mobility. The potential discrimination effect against trade …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … candidates actual values are still far below expected ones in most cases. Consequently, we anticipate rising capital and trade …