Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and trade can be attributed to the fact that the two modes at times complement each other or … Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have substantially increased intra …-group trade, in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republic and Slovenia at the expense of the Rest of the World (ROW). Since …

Since 2004 there has been a sharp decrease in border protection for the EU rice industry. Because the EU grants trade … trade; second, by estimating the trade elasticities of preferences by means of a dynamic panel gravity equation to deal with … the issues of endogeneity of preferences and persistency in bilateral trade flows. The results show that the way …

Over the time a large number of reciprocal preferential trade agreements (RTAs) have been concluded among countries …. Recently many studies have used gravity equations in order to estimate the effect of RTAs on trade flows between partners …, studies consistently find a positive RTAs impact on bilateral trade: the hypothesis that there is no effect of trade …

costs, the last category relates to transaction costs. SPS and quality measures do not so much act as barriers to trade for …. In contrast, import certificates still act as a barrier to trade, for reasons relating to the transaction costs involved … introduced, by which the multilateral resistance to trade is indicated. …

countries accepting the obligations of the internal market, and therefore accepting these principles of free trade. Fulfilling …. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of trade barriers on agri-food exports from Central and Eastern European … area with low trade barriers. In other words, the objective of the paper is to measure the impact of EU borders (called …

The paper presents an extended gravity equation application for the global trade with ethanol.The background and … on theworld market. Results indicate that global bilateral trade flows of ethanol can be explained bya set of … effect on trade flows is trade diverting as theregional agreement reduces the linkage to world markets and increases the …

model estimates the net effect of these measures on international trade with a loss of useful inference on separate effects … agricultural trade among OECD countries in 2004. We find that technical measures in agriculture often jointly enhance import demand … and hinder export supply with the net effect of promoting the propensity to trade. Further disaggregated data analysis …

The Linder hypothesis states that countries of similar income per capita should trade more intensely with one another …, the gravity equation estimated using trade data aggregated across sectors. The paper builds a theoretical framework in … inter-sectoral determinants of trade, countries of similar per-capita income trade more intensely with one another. The …

between exchange rate volatility and economic performance (via trade) for each of these countries and some of their biggest … trade partners. Exchange rate volatility resulting from a depreciating underlying currency of trade can potentially affect … earnings from trade, we observe that earnings from trade are not significantly affected by exchange rate volatility. We …