The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …

the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …

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

, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …

international trade. As world trade is set to rebound, this paper addresses three questions: (i) Will trade volumes rebound in a … symmetric fashion as world economic growth rebounds? (ii) Will the crisis result in a change in the structure of trade, and in …

Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …

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 …