market entry and subsequent trade flows estimated for total services, business services and financial services. It is found … that regulatory heterogeneity has a relatively large negative impact on both market entry and subsequent trade flows … that regulations that aims at correcting market failure can have a positive impact on trade. It is concluded that services …

s. The paper shows that trade and research and development trends are highly skewed in favor of the North and this means …

argue that these concerns may be unfounded since, in a world of restricted trade policy instruments, a retaliatory use of AD … might be welfar enhancing. By modeling the trade relationship between countries as a repeated game of hidden information, we …

The spaghetti bowl phenomenon expected from the proliferating East Asian regional trade agreements (RTAs) is worrisome …. In particular, the complicated web of hub-and-spoke type of overlapping free trade agreements (FTAs) can result in high … costs for verifying rules of origin (RoO). As an alternative policy option to avoid the negative effect of trade deflection …

Trade and investment are of paramount importance to achieve sustainable development thereby eradicating poverty …. Developing countries were strongly arguing on this issue. Their argument emanates from the fact that the terms of trade between …-making deficits at home. In line with this they are participating in WTO and redesigning their trade policies in enhancing the …

bilateral liberalisation of agricultural trade flows in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The bilateral trade liberalisation … trade policy impacts are assessed. Caveats of existing models are related to the representation of specific policy … instruments (tariffs, entry prices and other non-tariff measures) and on the seasonal nature of horticultural trade, which is of …

Promising growth rates, increased trade, and competition among major global players for African resources have boosted … economies. The self-interested trade policies of the EU and other world powers contribute to poverty and unsatisfactory …

producers lose. Because increased ethanol production improves the terms of trade in both the export of corn and the import of …,056 mil., more than offsetting the improved terms of trade and reduced price contingent farm subsidies, and representing over …