, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side … confirms that trade and investment liberalization are essential drivers of economic development. The economic growth and trade … benefits from trade facilitation generally dwarf those from tariff liberalization and, to a lesser extent, those achieved …

reduced rather than increased agglomeration in the face of trade-cost reductions. -- economic geographic ; location choice … in non-tariff barriers to trade would be expected to have an impact on where pharmaceutical multinationals locate … production within the EU. Using discrete-choice models, we study the determinants of multinationals’ location choices in terms of …

The attractiveness for the location of multinational firms is seen as a crucial issue for the development and …

To examine the effects of heterogeneous labor mobility on the distribution of industries and analyze the subsidy policy …

A dynamic between foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade, and the level of urbanization, has been … observed in many developing countries. This study seeks to fill a literature gap on the extent that FDI and international trade … impact developing Asian economies through urbanization. The study explores the relationship between FDI, international trade …

The business literature suggests that exporters either use trade intermediaries or own foreign sales representations …. Standard trade models are silent about this choice. We develop a model where producers differ with respect to competitive … advantage and where trade intermediaries arise endogenously. Intermediaries allow producers to access a foreign market at lower …

This paper examines whether European integration, manifesting itself in increased trade and FDI linkages, new … specializations and economic policy coordination, contributed to the synchronization of business cycles in the enlarged EU. We … model endogenous relationships and unveil direct and indirect effects. Trade and FDI prove to have a strong impact on …

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …. There is a host of key policy issues, including the issue of extended sustainability reporting. …