, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …

trade liberalisation. This paper uses the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury (NT) firm-level panel … to assess the response of South African firms to trade policy changes and demand shocks in destination markets between … firm level. Also, trade liberalisation policies in the destination country positively affect the number of exported goods …

, and identifies the main features of world trade and GVC participation that influence exposures to risks in supply chains … equilibrium (CGE) trade model METRO to shed light on the consequences of a stylised re-localisation policy scenario. In this … through trade. Quantitatively, the latter effect tends to dominate: re-localising GVCs would make the economy in most …

This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed …: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from …

Global trade growth over the past few years has appeared extraordinarily weak, even in relation to weak global GDP … growth. This paper shows that the apparent breakdown in the relationship between global trade and global GDP growth is … particularly trade intensive region – has had a substantial negative effect on intra-euro area trade flows, which are commonly …

several years, attention has grown for the trade costs of regulatory divergence. Diverging regulation may increase the costs … to trade goods and services across borders. While regulatory divergence is often the result of diverging national public … approaches that can help them identify and evaluate the trade impacts of their regulatory action. The paper reviews the …

Although the costs associated with the international transport and insurance of merchandise trade are an important … determinant of the volume and geography of international trade, remarkably little (official) data exist. Combining the largest and … methodology used in its construction. The database details the bilateral, product level international trade and insurance costs …