When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don …`t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent … developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative …

When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don …'t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent … developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative …

When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don …'t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent … developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative …

diversity of existing capabilities, the greater the number of possible recombinations. Trade between progressively larger sets … driven system. Based on this understanding, the note draws inferences for trade policy …

This paper explores the implications of recent developments in firm-based trade theory and empirics for trade policy … and negotiations. While traditional trade theory focused on the country, and the new trade theory of the 1980’s adopted … international trade. We describe insights from this reformulation of theory and the empirical literature that illuminates it. The …

The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes a chapter on regulatory coherence and measures to reduce trade costs arising … trade costs, and comment on the extent to which claims made on behalf of the TPP for significant cost reduction in goods … trade can be sustained, and the extent to which fears concerning the impact of the TPP measures on democratic choice on …

liberalization would allow the UK to expeditiously offset at least some of the trade costs incurred in leaving the EU Single Market … the modelling results, the main political economy challenge to unilateral liberalization for the UK in a post-EU trade …This study assesses the potential gains from unilateral trade liberalization for the UK, against the background of a …

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will impact on substantive market …