Many studies present the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as one of Africa's most new trade issues. Previous assessments show that this AfCFTA will catalyze Intra African trade. The cumulative impact on Côte d'Ivoire's exports in the long term is positive for other African countries...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 has led to the independence of fifteen new states. Twelve of these, including Ukraine, joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) whose goal was to form a common economic space with free movement of goods, labor and capital. Twenty five years...

In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find...

In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a...

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...

Regional value chains (RVCs) are considered as an important step towards a greater integration into global value chains (GVCs) but African countries trade very little value added with each other. Based on the UNCTAD-Eora GVC database this paper estimates a panel model from 2006 to 2012 for 37...

Regional value chains (RVCs) are considered as an important step towards a greater integration into global value chains (GVCs) but African countries trade very little value added with each other. Based on the UNCTAD-Eora GVC database this paper estimates a panel model from 2006 to 2012 for 37...

Since the post war period, the EU Common Commercial Policy (CCP) has moved in two directions mainly through Preferential Trade agreement (PTAs): a deeper (internal) trade integration process intended to reinforce trade relations among European countries (i.e. Custom Union, Single Market,...

Since the post war period, the EU Common Commercial Policy (CCP) has moved in twodirections mainly through Preferential Trade agreements (PTAs): a deeper (internal) trade integrationprocess intended to reinforce trade relations among European countries (i.e. CustomUnion, Single Market, European...

The extensive margin of bilateral trade exhibits a high level of persistence that cannot be explained by geography or trade policy. We combine a heterogeneous firms model of international trade with bounded productivity with features from the firm dynamics literature to derive expressions for an...