The failure of declining trade-related costs to be reflected in estimates of the standard gravity model of bilateral trade might be called the quot;missing globalization puzzle.quot; This puzzle is most apparent in the estimated distance coefficients found in the literature, which show no...

Economic integration and growth in trade within the Latin American region have created a need for new and major legal developments. In this context, the private sector has emerged as the driving force behind legal initiatives related to trade agreements such as the Andean Pact and MERCOSUR...

This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...

Productivity growth may be affected particularly for developing countries by international linkages or technology transfer. We evaluate relationships between productivity and FDI, exports, imports and licensing for Turkish manufacturing plants in the apparel, textiles, and motor vehicles...

China's accession to the WTO represents a goal achieved after nearly fifteen years of exhausting negotiations. However, many legal, political and social problems have not yet been tackled in terms of achieving real implementation of WTO provisions throughout the territory of the People's...

The evolution and grow of international trade has made more important and complex the task assigned to customs services. Now day's customs administration is a relevant regulatory operator in international trade as facilitator and accelerator of trade. However, the study of efficiency on the...

Alexander Izmailov, Ph.D (theoretical physics) and Brian Shay, Ph.D (mathematics) of Market Memory Trading, L.L.C., present in a series of nine (9) white papers, aspects of a revolutionary advance in uncovering hidden dependencies via filtering noise from correlation matrices developed by the...

India is witnessing strong growth prospects in organized retailing with foreign retail players willing to make investment in the sub continent. Government has formulated a policy which allows 51% in multi-brand retailing and 100% in single-brand retailing. But some of the policy guidelines need...

Alexander Izmailov, Ph.D (theoretical physics) and Brian Shay, Ph.D (mathematics) of Market Memory Trading, L.L.C., present in a series of white papers, aspects of a revolutionary advance in uncovering hidden dependencies via filtering noise from correlation matrices developed by the New York...

Alexander Izmailov, Ph.D (theoretical physics) and Brian Shay, Ph.D (mathematics) of Market Memory Trading, L.L.C., present in a series of nine (9) white papers, aspects of a revolutionary advance in uncovering hidden dependencies via filtering noise from correlation matrices developed by the...