Purpose – Will a free trade agreement (FTA) between nations be politically viable? Under political lobbying, which incentives determine whether FTAs will be signed or not? Will FTAs steadily include more countries until we reach a worldwide free trade? The paper addresses these questions using...

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet eine empirische Untersuchung der Wirkungen von Wechselkursänderungen auf die Außenhandelsstruktur der BRD in der Zeit von 1982 bis 1991. Die ausgewählten Ergebnisse sind folgende: 1) Mit den aggregierten Gesamtdaten der Makroebene konnten keine...

Abstract This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed export costs that are heterogeneous across firms. In this model not all firms will choose to export. We examine the effects of reciprocal changes in the tariff and the fixed export...

This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed export costs that are heterogeneous across firms. In this model not all firms will choose to export. We examine the effects of reciprocal changes in the tariff and the fixed export barrier on...

This study tests the validity of the alternative hypotheses in the intra-industry trade (IIT) literature using information on Korea’s trade between 1991 and 1999. The study refines previous studies by breaking down IIT into horizontally and vertically differentiated products, controlling for...

We analyse transboundary pollution externalities caused by consumption of goods. The model is of a reciprocal dumping type in which there are two countries and two firms. Each firm produces a homogeneous good to be consumed in both markets. There are two policies available to the governments of...

This paper examines changes in intra-industry specialization indicators over the 1992-2004 period to assess potential for structural adjustment problems that may arise in U.S. textile and apparel products with growth in trade. Separate analyses are conducted for U.S. bilateral trade with China,...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag werden die Effekte einer Vertiefung der Wirtschaftsintegration auf Märkten, die durch intrasektoralen Handel gekennzeichnet sind, untersucht. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass auch die Gütermärkte der EU-Länder stärker segmentiert sind, als gemeinhin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the patterns and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in manufactures between Korea and selected ASEAN countries in the period of 1997-2011. Design/methodology/approach – The effects of country-specific determinants of...

Summary This paper expands the empirical analysis of hysteresis in trade in two directions. First, it uses disaggregate data for exports from Germany to the U.S. to minimise aggregation problems. Second, it introduces a new non-linear model to test for the non-linear parameter. The model is...