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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

integration of trade, finance, investments, labor markets and ideas in one global marketplace. The most important elements of this … process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the … fact that the world trade grew faster than world output, which implies that an increasing share of world GDP crosses …

more than ever before a matter of trade. Furthermore, under the WTO's TRIPS Agreement, we now have a global copyright … (Gcopy;) regime. The globalization of copyright law destabilized previous balances. The shift to a trade environment requires … detached from its previously underlying philosophies and is now void of a coherent theory, other than that of a trade ideology …

. The latter is of special interest due to the necessity to improve the instruments applied in industrial and trade policies …