developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … diversify production, linking to the Global Value Chains and developing adequate infra-structures facilitating digital trade as … overcoming some of these issues through various programs, all geared towards trade capacity building. It is argued that the work …

of trade and financial openness. Using a large crosssection of 91 countries covering the period 1985-2004, we establish … two main empirical regularities. Both higher trade and financial openness i) reduce central bank?s inflation bias …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

globalization and cultural diversity. The chapter then presents various applications from trade in cultural goods, foreign direct …

favours openness to trade at an early stage of development, while an autocrat complying with the preferences of capitalists … chooses to shelter the economy from trade. The trade regime interacts with economic institutions, and with policies on capital … economy attractive to foreign investors. Allowing for trade and foreign capital inflows are thus complementary policies that …

The key result of the so-called "New Trade Theory" is that countries gain from falling trade costs by an increase in … second result is a major issue for anti-trade activists who criticize the move towards free trade as promoting … trade costs induces additional varieties to export and drives out some non-exported varieties, these modifications result in …

horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). This choice involves a trade-off between the higher variable trade costs associated …

The world is awash in trade-distorting subsidies. Since the financial crisis of 2008, governments have adopted massive … automobiles, which have distorted global markets, bred cronyism, and undermined free trade. These policies encouraged copycat … subsidization, which spawned an increase in litigation at the World Trade Organization and led to the frequent imposition of …