Introduction -- PartI: Economic Growth in a Knowledge - Based Economy -- Part II: Globalisation, Competitiveness and Growth -- Part III: The Role of Public Policies in Fostering Innovation, Competitiveness and Growth

The study seeks to establish a trade relationship between agricultural products in the Maldives. India hasbecome a significant player globally, especially for rice, cotton, sugar, and buffalo meat. Notwithstanding theseitems, India has likewise become a sizeable exporter of soybean supper, guar...

The notion that international trade is the foundation of economic growth dates long back, and even now, an irresistible body of literature confirms a strong and positive link between trade openness and economic growth. However, most of these studies are focused on developed countries. Indeed...

Given the importance of international trade and export performance in economic growth, this study attempts to examine the determinants of exports in SAARC Countries, using a pooled time-series and cross-section data over the period 2005-2018. The methodology employed is the export demand model...

Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching...

I rely on a historical natural experiment to provide, for the first time, a causal estimate of the effect of currency unions on international trade. Since the seminal paper by Rose (2000), a large literature has developed around currencies as a trade cost. However, self-selection and endogeneity...

We measure the impact of frequent exogeneous shocks on small ECCU economies, including changes to global economic activity, tourism flows, oil prices, passport sales, FDI, and natural disasters. Using Canonical-Correlation Analysis (CCA) and dynamic panel regression analysis we find significant...

This study investigated the effect of exchange rate shocks on foreign trade (exports and imports) of 10 ECOWAS economies. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration and error correction model was employed to examine the long-run and short-run relationship between the...

Shipping accidents and environmental disasters pose a challenge to the reliability of maritime supply chains. With international trade intensifying without a significant diversification of the supply routes the risk of perturbations is likely to increase, because higher atmospheric carbon...