integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future …

Since 1990 the number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has increased very rapidly. This paper aims to contribute … to this literature by presenting a new database on PTAs called Design of Trade Agreements (DESTA). We identified a total … of 690 negotiated trade agreements between 1945 and 2009 of which we have coded 404 agreements for which treaty texts and …

Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of …

This paper provides a survey of the literature on trade theory, from the classical example of comparative advantage to … the New Trade theories currently used by many advanced countries to direct industrial policy and trade. An account is …," which provides an explanation of trade structure in terms of aggregate demand. Attention is drawn to new developments in …

The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what … published papers using data for firms from manufacturing or services industries to study the links between international trade …. -- International trade ; firm performance ; empirical studies ; survey …

The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what … published papers using data for firms from manufacturing or services industries to study the links between international trade …. -- international trade ; firm performance ; empirical studies ; survey …