surprisingly, neither processing trade nor foreign invested firms are found to play an important role in generating the increased … other hand, processing trade, foreign invested firms, and government-sponsored high-tech zones all have contributed …

, hydrocarbon fuels and information and communication technology. -- Foreign direct investment ; bilateral trade ; Asia …

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use … that do not use the trade agreement could even suffer when large firms have the option of using the treaty, since the …

The importance of services trade and "servicification" of economic activity has grown in countries overtime. However … total services trade in 2005 and 2.9% in 2017. While trade costs for services have been computed in the literature, barriers … specific to Mode 4 services trade have not yet been quantified. We contribute by constructing an index to quantify regulatory …

derived from this model, in conjunction with alternative functional forms for trade costs, to estimate the effects of …

, we show that upper-truncation of the Pareto distribution makes average exports rise with trade liberalization. This … distributions, which are also frequently used by trade economists. Our findings for lognormal and Fréchet distributions are …