This paper provides new insights into how financial globalization relates to international trade. Exploiting unique … after entry, but less so. Overall, results suggest that foreign banks facilitate trade in emerging markets by increasing the …

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern … covered by this study (2005-2017), export expansion stimulated growth, more openness to trade reduced it, and that the … instruments for achieving its central objective. These results lead to three conclusions. Firstly, trade through export expansion …

Asian countries (China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) becomes more … trade, increase of international capital flows, and development of information and communications technologies, Asian …

This research paper evaluates the relative significance of World Trade Organisation (WTO) accession in general and that … for foreign direct investors. Other FDI influencing factors such as economic development, macroeconomic stability, trade … EAP developing countries, it was established that trade and investment liberalization, as well as size of local market …

East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that … depend on how it addresses three more proximate national and regional challenges. The first is the emergence of China as a … global trade giant, which is fundamentally altering the trading patterns and opportunities of its neighbors. The second is …

development of cooperation and performance in trade facilitation for ASEAN and China and provides policy recommendations. Trade … facilitation cooperation is important as ASEAN and China are in the process to enhance regional trade flows through cooperation … under the Framework Agreement of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). Since tariffs have been reduced in the framework …

This paper uses a general equilibrium trade framework to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to …. China has followed a different highway construction strategy and has experienced more significant convergence across regions …