This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial...

Ausmaß und Struktur des Handels -- Handelskosten und Gravitationsmodell -- Vollkommener Wettbewerb und Handelsvorteile: Partialanalyse -- Außenhandel im Allgemeinen Gleichgewicht -- Ricardo-Modell: Technologieunterschiede und komparative Kosten -- Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson-Modell:...

Walk down any main street in Shanghai, Paris or New York and you will see evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. Everyone has seen or heard of fake Prada bags or Omega watches. But how large is the counterfeit market? It appears that the same numbers have been quoted repeatedly in sources...

This book is aimed to analyze the effect of China, Japan and Korea's trade strategy on ASEAN countries. As closer economic ties between countries in the area have greatly expanded in the last decade, economic regionalization in East Asia has proceeded in a much more dynamic fashion while...

There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....

This paper exploits information from two different datasets to provide a novel and multi-dimensional picture of the engagement of all sub-Saharan African countries in global value chains (GVCs). It documents in detail the nature of the underlying data and the way it is used to construct several...