We use 6-digit bilateral trade data to document the effect of WTO/GATT membership on the extensive and intensive … product margins of trade. We construct gravity equations for the two product margins motivated by Chaney (2008). The empirical … results show that standard gravity variables provide good explanatory power for bilateral trade on both margins. Importantly …

Many computable general equilibrium models have been set up recently, in order to assess the benefits of trade …

This chapter studies interlinkages and interaction between the reciprocal trade liberalization through the WTO and … preferential trade agreements from the perspective of the LDCs. An econometric exercise using an extended version of ARTNeT gravity …’ trade. …

. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …

significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …

Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade … policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices … preconditions for implementing “selective” (targeted) trade and industrial policies. Yet more, he discusses the implications of the …

Asia and the Pacific. The findings reveal that despite declared pledges of the developed countries towards free trade, and …

different approaches available to the LDCs and their partners in improving their developmental prospects through enhanced trade …. The monograph starts with the presentation of trade related data of the 14 LDCs in Asia and the Pacific and the linkage … between trade and economic development. Then the problematique of market access is analyzed, followed by a study of the …

This chapter reiterates some truisms about the linkages between trade, trade liberalization and development. It also … provides a statistical overview of the Asia-Pacific LDCs’ performance in trade and investment since 2000. …