simultaneously enhancing security and reducing costs for secure trade and for individuals. The study concludes that these new …

The bilateral trade flows between Canada and the US have grown rapidly in the 1990s. Are they evidence of an emerging … North American trading bloc? A gravity model of trade finds that while economic size and proximity can explain much of the … substantial trade between Canada and the US, the US bias in Canada’s merchandise trade has grown since the formation of the Canada …

We analyse potential consequences of the forthcoming Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and … the United States (TTIP) for trade orientation of both partners. We do it with the short analysis of the characteristics ….S. in the world economy − especially − in the world trade. Next we study trade orientation of the hypothetical region …

interregional trade was strongly influenced by connectivity within the network. Today, these connectivity differentials continue to …

0.7, while import price changes that can be traced back to exchange rate movements of other trade partners only have … mild effects on US prices. Further analysis points to the importance of trade integration, variable markups, and demand …

This paper examines the effect of a change in U.S. trade policy on the domestic investment of U.S. manufacturers. Using … uncertainty exhibit relative declines in investment after the change in trade policy. Within industries, we find that this …

, even for very small preferential margins and/or very small trade flows, which contradicts numerous estimates that average … a percentage share of the trade value, our findings indicate that utilization costs involve an important fixed cost … element. We provide estimates for such fixed costs, which appear to be in the range of USD 14 to USD 1,500. -- Trade policy …