This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We … estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade … shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These measures are instrumented based …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

In this paper we use a gravity model to study the trade performance of French and Spanish border regions relatively to … non-border regions, over the past two decades. We find that, controlling for their size, proximity and location … characteristics, border regions trade on average between 62% and 193% more with their neighbouring country than other regions, and …

in playing the role of champion in trade and investment liberalization. What ASEAN most realistically can do is to serve … external trade and investments. Being a recipient rather than a donor of official development assistance ASEAN is handicapped …

Despite Egypt’s adoption of an “open-door” policy since the 1970s and a rapid expansion of world trade in recent … 2001, a number of trade liberalization and reform measures, although falling short of opening Egypt’s protected market …, contributed to enhancing exports to the global market place. The pace of liberalization received a boost with the new government …

In large number of circumstances, trade policy modellers turn to partial equilibrium modelling in an imperfect … substitutes framework. This article develops a formal representation of this imperfect substitutes model and applies it to trade … liberalization within the negative list between Pakistan and India following Pakistan’s decision to grant most favoured nation (MFN …

Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986 1994) to the need for domestic transparency in trade policy. He co-authored a … review of trade policy conduct of industrial nations, which was published by the National Centre for Development Studies in …It is now widely agreed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is in trouble, struggling to deliver the national …

This book takes a penetrating look at major challenges to the World Trade Organization and the future of trade … liberalization. …

leading to trade reforms, and the political economy aspects of reform. …