This paper attempts to make an innovative contribution to the growth literature by proposing a trade-induced catch up model in which imitation benefit is explicitly modelled and trade knowledge spillover is considered. The resulting income dynamics is in the error correction form. The Pooled...

While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations are progressing slowly, China’s interest in regional trade agreements has intensified. This paper brings together our computable general equilibrium model estimates of the benefits of...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

The Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) share an old, constant and strong friendship relation with China. Along the last decades, both China and CEE countries underwent tremendous changes following different paths to development. These changes, as well as the outburst of the global...

This article is an analysis of the four world superpowers (China, EU-27, USA and Japan) trade with the high-technology products (HT), in the period of the last disposable five years (2007-2011), period that encompasses also the global economic crisis. Fortunately, the crisis had no major impact...

This article is an analysis of the four world superpowers (China, EU-27, USA and Japan) trade with the high-technology products (HT), in the period of the last disposable five years (2007-2011), period that encompasses also the global economic crisis. Fortunately, the crisis had no major impact...

We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress establish the existence of search and information frictions. A randomized experiment that offers new exporters exogenous demand and...