century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

addition, we are able to relate asymmetries in FTA effects to each country's ability to influence the other's terms of trade … past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify …. Even with the same agreement, FTA effects are weaker for more distant pairs and for pairs with otherwise high levels of ex …

International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of … effects” that are arguably related to the ICT revolution that started around 1985, and (ii) the implementation of Free Trade … capture the emergence of GVCs by disentangling domestic and international trade in final goods and intermediate inputs …

This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of … Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects … accounts for the bulk of the increase in international trade in manufactured goods since 1970. The cost of a national border …

This paper attempts to answer one crucial research question, why the utilization of India Sri Lanka Free Trade … Agreement (ISFTA) route for trade is very poor by the India exporters (13%) as compared to their Sri Lankan Counterpart (65 … hamstringing growth of trade between these partners development of international trade. However, these have considered NTBs as sub …

addition, we are able to relate asymmetries in FTA effects to each country's ability to influence the other's terms of trade … past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify …. Even with the same agreement, FTA effects are weaker for more distant pairs and for pairs with otherwise high levels of ex …

attributable to particular trade agreements displays high variability. While most RTAs increase trade, others present non … significant in both specifications. RTAs trade creation effects tend to prevail over trade diversion effects …

International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of … effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution that started around 1985, and (ii) the implementation of Free Trade … capture the emergence of GVCs by disentangling domestic and international trade in final goods and intermediate inputs …

This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of … Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects … accounts for the bulk of the increase in international trade in manufactured goods since 1970. The cost of a national border …

-US free trade and investment agreement, although not likely to be concluded soon, would address this gap and offers a range of …