The emergence of manufacturing related services (MRS) coincides with the revaluation of manufacturing. We observed that … manufacturing-focused countries overcame the financial crisis which broke out in 2007 with less difficulty than their service …-focused counterparts. Manufacturing played a crucial role in navigating the economic problems such as unemployment, polarization and …

exports are mainly characterized by high knowledge- and service-intensive manufacturing goods, while the EU enlargement … the domestic value added content in manufacturing exports is of key importance for Austria's competitiveness on the global … market. In particular we found a mutual integration of EU enlargement countries of 2004 and Austria: Austria's intermediate …

EU exports is made up of manufacturing products. By contrast, EU imports from the NMS and NIS display a much more … States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan … both NMS and (less so) the NIS towards the West. The recent trade developments on EU?NIS borders indicate a closer trade …

United States of America (USA), Canada, Japan, Mexico and South Africa the strategic partners of the European Union (EU …). Although the relationships between the EU and each of the four largest emerging economies in the world have a common backbone … explore the strategic partnerships between the EU and the BRIC countries with emphasis on the economic pillar of the EU …

The objective of this research is provide an overview of EU integration effects on international trade and sectoral … trade integration as reported by a relevant gravity model and fixed effect panel estimation. In order to evaluate the EU … implicit trade obstacles or barriers that still exist among EU members and to prove the trade-reducing effect of such remaining …

empirical studies aimed at assessing the impact of the EU-MED partnership on bilateral trade. The novelty of this work is … trade-enhancing impact of the EU preferential agreements towards SMCs and ex ante the actual efficacy of the ENP …