We highlight an example of considerable bias in officially published input-output data (factor-income shares) by an LDC (Turkey), which many researchers use without question. We make use of an intertemporal general equilibrium model of trade and production to evaluate the dynamic gains for...

This paper critically examines "new" evidence from the gravity model that indicates the majority of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) today are predominantly trade diverting. This new evidence on trade diversion was presented in a recent Australia Productivity Commission (APC) working...

There are countries that do not fall under the prevailing definitions of developed and developing country that are employed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO fails to take into account the special circumstances and needs of these countries. While such special circumstances and needs...

This report is part of a five-country study focusing on how environmental and human health related standards apply to the agricultural sector. The overall study is coordinated by the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) in the Netherlands. The five countries include Australia, Canada,...

The vacuum left by stalled global trade negotiations has led to two tracks of negotiations in the Asia Pacific: an Asian track centered on ASEAN and a Trans-Pacific track based on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, currently in negotiation by 11 economies including the United States. Both...

The European Union and the Mercosur are actually negotiating an inter-regional Free Trade Area, even though the conditions of access of Latin American products to European market are relatively restrictive. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is...

The European Union and the Mercosur are presently negotiating a Free Trade Area, and that may improve the conditions of access of Latin American exports to the European market. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is not favorable to Mercosur...

The book is focused on the importance of interaction between innovation, competitiveness and foreign trade. For the first time with reference to the Republic of Moldova, a multidimensional analysis that allows estimating the influence of export and import flows on the elements of innovational...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations could create way-stations toward the Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). They could yield new, regionally acceptable rules and facilitate experimentation with and adjustment to...