trade and investment. In this paper, we review various outward processing provisions that are adopted as exemptions from the …

domestic variety. A vast number of empirical studies in the international trade literature report the apparent prevalence of a … large degree of home bias (the case of the missing trade, the border puzzle). Many theoretical studies, in turn, assume its …

International trade ows reveal strong persistence over time. This paper is concerned with the role of trade agreements … in this persistent environment. The data reveal a high level of heterogeneity of the trade- creating effect along the … trade volume and per-capita income distributions. If controlled for persistence in bilateral trade ows, I find that higher …

Europe since the XIXth century up to date. The research objective is to review the liberalisation of trade dynamics and … occurred in international trade as a result of the emergence of developing nations as major trade partners, the European Union … and the United States remain the economic and trade hegemons. …

India has a large positive trade balance in the apparel sector and is ranked among the top 10 apparel exporting … Trade Organization's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and second, India is negotiating mega-regional trade … presents India's trade in apparel products by sub-sectors and key markets, and analyses its trade competitiveness across …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research. …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research. -- trade agreements ; multilateralism …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …