Over the past two decades, globalisation has given a boost to world trade, has grown one and a half times faster than world output, and the difference has even been considerably higher in recent years as world trade growth accelerated very strongly. More

We compare samples of textiles and garments producers across groups of countries to find that, in general, productivity is far lower in Sub-Saharan Africa than it is in India. Indian manufacturers in turn are significantly less productive than their counterparts in Morocco, while producers in...

W ostatnich latach coraz śmielej formułuje się hipotezę głoszącą, że światowym handlem na powrót rządzi klasycznie interpretowana przewaga komparatywna, co umniejsza znaczenie osiągnięć nowych ujęć teoretycznych i zarazem przywraca aktualność tradycyjnej teorii handlu...

Bu çalışma Türkiye’nin ticaret ortaklarına yapmış olduğu ihracatta ulusal pazar etkisinin geçerliliğini her bir 8 tane 1 haneli SITC ürün grubu için ARDL gravity denklemlerini tahmin ederek incelemektedir. Çalışmada 1989-2007 dönemi için Türkiye’nin ihracat yaptığı en...

One of the most notable events of the world economy over the past twenty years has been the phenomenal growth in the number of international economic integration agreements, such as free trade agreements. This paper discusses the roles of “competitive liberalization” by nations’...

The influence of data aggregation on applied trade theory may not be generally appreciated. Aggregation can have a direct impact on the direction of trade, factor intensity, factor abundance, factor substitution, product differentiation, and intra-industry trade. This paper develops some...

Tariff literature on third-degree price discrimination remains only lightly explored. The purpose of the paper is to investigate whether there exist optimum tariffs in the presence of different demand elasticities. We explore (i) the case of optimum uniform ad valorem tariff, and (ii) the case...

The article summarises the main lessons of the Bank’s 2010 conference which focused on international trade and foreign direct investment. The research is based on a microeconomic approach to the behaviour of Belgian firms, with reference to developments in the scientific literature on the...

We construct a tractable model of an oligopolistic industry that allows us to capture the role of the vertical structure in the incentives for and implications of cross-border horizontal mergers. We show that vertical integration can increase the gains from cross-border mergers. We also...