transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and … growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two …

The authors determine how time delays affect international trade using newly collected World Bank data on the days it …

comprehensive database of PTAs in force and a detailed matrix of world trade. He shows that total trade between PTA partners is a … to one-third of global trade in 2000-02, the latter was between one-sixth and one-tenth of world trade. His gravity model …

sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …

least resistance from World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries to include trade facilitation in the Doha Round … learned from cross-country experiences, the EU and the World Bank organized two workshops in Dhaka (South Asian countries) and …

playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …

How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World …