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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 extensive margin of bilateral trade exhibits a high level of persistence that cannot be explained by geography or … trade policy. We combine a heterogeneous firms model of international trade with bounded productivity with features from the … trade agreement, and shared currency), only sharing a common currency retains a significant effect on whether two countries …

power of this mechanism for trade flows is especially strong for intra-EU trade. …

parliamentary elections. On the economic side, the sanctions significantly hurt Russia’s foreign trade — with regional …-level variation. We use trade losses caused by the sanctions as measure for regional sanction exposure. For identification, we rely on … a structural gravity model that allows us to compare observed trade flows to counterfactual flows in the absence of …

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 …

When, about twenty years ago, the Euro was created, one objective was to facilitate intra‐European trade by reducing … transaction costs. Has the Euro delivered? Using sectoral trade data from 1995 to 2014 and applying structural gravity modeling … trade effect for goods of almost 8 percent, but a much smaller effect for services trade. Digging deeper, we detect …