Trade Association (EFTA) signed with the EU in 1972. Later, Sweden signed to become a member of the European Economic Area …

regions can be moderated by good regulation when good institutional factors are in place. Thus, greenfield investments in the …

In this paper, the literature on trade and development is surveyed, especially that regarding the role of … complementarities associated with trade infrastructure. The empirical literature shows that, on average, trade causes growth, but the … investment in soft and hard infrastructure has an unambiguously positive impact on trade flows, the theoretical literature argues …

This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of … has also forged five major free trade agreements (FTAs) with its dialogue partners (People's Republic of China, India …. Econometric evidence suggests that (i) trade flows and inward FDI mutually reinforce each other, i.e., an increase in trade flows …

This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less … integrated trading partners. Thus, they bear the cost of trade balance expansion, while competitive exchange rate moves vis …-a-vis RTA trading partners result in no expansion or deterioration of the overall trade balance. First, using the data on 138 …

Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership perform well in terms of trade and …-sector oriented due to the impact of globalization and changes in global trade patterns and production process, such as fragmented … trade and production, and regional production. Government and institutional mechanisms are relatively unimportant in the …

chains (GVCs). Since 2000, Asian governments have been more active in negotiating deep trade agreements, of which the … nation states will remain, the EU's external trade policy and many Asian countries' policies are converging toward a model of … liberal trade regimes plus collaboration in establishing common norms in other areas that are important to GVC operation (so …

Southeast Asia, intra-regional trade has increased to 25% in the 2010s from 18% of total trade in the early-1990s. Southeast … compared to 12% in the early-1990s. Compared to Southeast Asia, South Asia has an abysmal performance in intra-regional trade … and bilateral trade is throttled between India and Pakistan. Therefore, there is a need to harness the potential of …