This paper addresses the intra-regional trade of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely, the … United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. We have found that the intra-regional trade is still at … a modest level, where the trade intensity index showed negative signals except the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. In addition …

International competitiveness is often regarded as crucial for the attainment of gains from trade, which may lead … Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, it becomes a necessary condition for the attainment of gains from trade and it applies to … all forms of trade that lead to economy-wide gains. The paper proceeds by reviewing first the concepts and measurements of …

International competitiveness is often regarded as crucial for the attainment of gains from trade, which may lead … Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, it becomes a necessary condition for the attainment of gains from trade and it applies to … all forms of trade that lead to economy-wide gains. The paper proceeds by reviewing first the concepts and measurements of …

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China’s impact … on Latin America’s trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China´s growth in the last years implied a growing … Cone countries. -- bilateral trade ; gravity model ; poisson regression ; China ; Latin America …

specialization indicators: a Balassa symmetric index version; a Chi-Squared Index; and the Relative Trade Advantage Index, all these … variation, based on trade balance flows. It is applied to the particular case of Argentina and Uruguay butter world trade during … is very stable. -- Mercosur; trade flows ; dairy products ; indices of trade specialization …

has benefited German foreign trade in particular. This applies especially to automotive and mechanical engineering …. However, this geographical reorientation of German export trade in favor of the BRICS countries could soon reach its limits …