Over the past decade, the Russian government has embarked on an ambitious program of economic development in the Russian Far East (RFE), envisioning the transformation of the region into a hub for trade with the Asia Pacific. This paper explores the extent of RFE's trade integration with both...

This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base for multinational corporations by joining East Asia's supply chains. While proceeding to...

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

The objective of this research is to determine the constraints to the export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in their intra-regional trade. The analysis of international data by descriptive statistics on the one hand and on the other hand by an econometric technique using the gravity model...

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...

This paper contains the programme and proceedings of 1998 Warwick summer research workshop on "Economic Aspects of Globalisation". It also contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the workshop.

This paper analyses the evolution of the South American Common Market, Mercosur. It shows how the lack of coordination of macroeconomic policies, especially of the two major participants (Argentina and Brazil), had caused trade strains and conflicting interests in attracting foreign investments....

Intra South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) trade isn’t of commendable value as compared to that of EU or ASEAN. The question arises, does the trend imply failure of SAARC in economic terms or the root failure lies outside the rational scope of trade? Therefore, an attempt...

Are there still significant common macroeconomic fluctuations between Nigeria and its industrial trade partners, even with the increased growth performance and resilience of emerging market and developing economies to developments originating from advanced economies in recent years? This paper...

Substantial evidence suggests that countries with stronger trade linkages have more synchro- nized business cycles. The standard international business cycle framework cannot replicate this finding, uncovering the trade-comovement puzzle. In this paper we investigate the extent to which more...