's bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in … support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting U.S.-China trade imbalance and in reducing deficit of U.S. trade with Japan …. The results also indicate that the devaluation of Chinese Yuan does not affect its bilateral trade balance with the U …

the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of … about the impacts of globalization on labor markets. -- trade in services ; WTO ; GATS ; trade agreements ; economic …Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by …

integration and their impact on trade, growth and poverty in the world's two dominant developing countries in emerging markets … multinational) foundations of real and financial integration, particularly the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the …

development increases energy usage's role in causing pollution while attenuating the detrimental impacts of economic growth, trade … requirement for the basis of the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH), which we examine using trade openness and foreign direct …

private sector. This is consistent with the market-oriented approach of the WTO. Remaining state agencies and enterprises will …

efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms … characterizing SOEs operations in a model of trade with firm heterogeneity and show that they can hinder the selection effects of … openness and tame the aggregate productivity gains from trade. We empirically test these predictions analyzing the response of …

of trade integration for the similarity of business cycles are less robust and thus less important for the transmission …

estimator. Results indicate that the trade channel is not as important as cross-section models suggest but that FDI may have the …