Since the 1960's, the EU has offered trade preferences to developing countries in a complex set of systems. Broadly … and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). We construct a detailed database over these trade preferences and use it …

economic policy. In our empirical analysis, based on an extensive dataset covering most of world trade, we find that GSP tends …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … expect the ETWFE methods to have significant implications for the estimates of other policy variables in the trade literature …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … expect the ETWFE methods to have significant implications for the estimates of other policy variables in the trade literature …

The gravity model of trade is utilized to assess the impact of disintegration on trade. The analysis is based on three … strong home bias around the time of disintegration, with intra-union trade exceeding nfirmal trade approximately 43 times in … fall in trade intensity. Nevertheless, there is a considerable hysteresis in economic relations, with trade flows among the …

movement of goods, labor and capital. Twenty five years later, CIS countries still face important trade policy choices, the … the gravity model of trade using alternative estimation approaches that account for zeros in trade: Heckman, Poisson … exports while improved governance would, ceteris paribus, almost double its trade. Most of these changes originate from the …

This paper analyses the impact of the reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers on the trade balance and the current … trade liberalisation has worsened the balance of trade and the balance of payments, because imports have increased more … the trade policy regime. …

according to the region and the type of trade policy regime existing in the country. The results also show that the elimination … of trade policy distortions has a strong, positive impact on import growth. Lastly, it is found that income and price … elasticities are higher as a result of trade policy reform. …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the 'classical' model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …