Showing 1 - 10 of 4,310
South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy-related variables — relatively high tariff and non-tariff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049222
Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773529
The goal of this investigation is to research the development of intensive and extensive trade margins on product-country level data for Croatia during the period 2000–2012. Hypothesis of our paper is that RTAs-induced trade liberalization will have heterogeneous effects on particular product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964366
Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309578
Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known -- and traditionally presumed exogenous -- “trade-cost elasticity” plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014988
This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge spillovers in a multi-country model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366570
activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366571
We use a model of combined endogenous growth and economic geography to study the impact of regional economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343970
Except for the history of colonialism, the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have similar roots and they share initial targets to foster economic growth and competitiveness. However, the EU and ASEAN have diverging economic integration paths. The ASEAN...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175530
Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … movement of goods and factors of production and a common currency linked much of Europe. Meanwhile, effective economic …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137064