This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade … in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing … globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement. Relying on BoP trade statistics published by Eurostat and the WTO, it …

Market to ensure freer trade and perhaps to create an egalitarian Europe. The post-1993 period saw the biggest enlargement of … had happened in the EU. Our study makes a humble attempt to shed light on the role of trade (both intra-EU and EU versus … trade openness and government expenditure did contribute to per capita income convergence in the EU during the period of our …

trade. Organisations that monitor international macro-economic development have identified growing protectionism – not least … the increase in non-tariff barriers to trade, such as local regulations or subsidies – as a potential cause of the weaker … growth in global trade. Non-tariff barriers to trade are a significant element of countries’ trade policies and may often be …

of a systematic analysis of precrisis trade patterns. The analysis is motivated by the "decoupling" thesis, which was a … issues: Was the East Asian trade integration story that underpinned the decoupling thesis simply a statistical artifact or … of trade credit, which overpowered the cushion provided by intra-regional trade? What are the new policy challenges faced …

World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. There … are both structural and cyclical reasons for the slowdown. A deceleration in the rate of trade liberalisation post 2000 … and Asian trade weakened markedly. These structural changes were compounded by insipid demand due to anaemic growth of …

The study examines the effect of financial crises on international trade with a gravity approach and a large data set … covering almost 70 importing and 200 exporting countries from 1950 to 2009. Thus it is possible to put the "Great Trade … important factors to explain the negative effects of a banking crisis on international trade. As the analysis indicates …