rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …

Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community’s (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by … chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …

experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The … evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …

Against the background of a changing landscape of trade and investment governance in the 21st century, characterised by … the proliferation of deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs), this paper econometrically tests the importance of global … value chain trade and regulatory differences in explaining the likelihood of a country pair to include an (enforceable …

indicators based on a value added rather than gross trade basis and emphasis on the actual (domestic) value added creation due to … exports are needed for policy-makers and researchers to draw a more accurate picture of the link between trade and value added … established in the literature such as the degree of vertical specialisation, value added trade and global value chain income, we …

closely together between those Asian economies that trade more with one another, ie that share a higher degree of trade …