With the trade normalization process between India and Pakistan gathering momentum since November 2011, new … opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade have opened between the two countries. This study estimates the trade potential between … India and Pakistan, and examines how this potential can be realized. Using the Trade Possibility Approach for all items …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have become a prominent feature of the multilateral trading system and an important … instrument of trade policy for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The proliferation of FTAs is the result of a number … proliferation of FTAs in east Asia benefits the regional trade and economic growth, questions have been raised about "Asian noodle …

tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was …

This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less … integrated trading partners. Thus, they bear the cost of trade balance expansion, while competitive exchange rate moves vis …-a-vis RTA trading partners result in no expansion or deterioration of the overall trade balance. First, using the data on 138 …

regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to … investigate their role in setting the regulatory standard in this area. Indeed e-commerce- or digital trade-related obligations …

international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major … 2019, the existence of the entire North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is at risk if the United States withdraws - a … use state-of-the-art econometric methodology to estimate the partial (average treatment) effects on international trade …

The growth of digital trade is dependant upon greater interconnectivity across borders. Several countries strive to … achieve such interconnectivity and integration in digital trade through international trade agreements. Digital trade … digital trade integration: reducing digital trade barriers; digital trade facilitation; digital trade regulatory frameworks …

Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to … simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and … dematerializing trade data and documents and enabling their electronic exchange, commonly referred to as paperless trade measures, are …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … expect the ETWFE methods to have significant implications for the estimates of other policy variables in the trade literature …

We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows … between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows … associated political uncertainty. In counterfactual experiments, we impose new borders on Catalan trade, potentially within or …