LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …

OECD trade barriers did not play a significant role in Sub-Saharan Africa's declining position in world trade over the …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

they move from relatively controlled and closed economies, to more open and liberalized economies with wider regional trade … arrangements, deepening trade cooperation, and expanding duty-free areas. The effects on trade and customs administration of these …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

This paper argues that developing Asia is overlooking an opportunity for increased growth and development through trade … in business services. Developing Asia would benefit from liberalizing services trade as it has benefited from … liberalizing goods trade. This argument rests on these key findings: business services are important for growth, developing Asia is …

Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures … (NTMs) have been replacing tariffs continuously as the core element of trade negotiations. Today they take centre stage in … all EU trade agreements with industrialised and emerging economies. By matching product codes to the rich data of NTM …

resulted in vaccine stockouts in many countries. In this context, international trade could be instrumental in overcoming … challenges pertaining to vaccine availability. This study is an analysis of trade and trade barriers related to vaccines and … vaccine inputs in the AsiaPacific region, the second largest regional trader of vaccine inputs. Using trade-related data of …

existing studies, which are mainly devoted to the impact of reduced trade flows on the key macroeconomic indicators, we focus … the ongoing trade war has not only adversely affected the macroeconomic fundamentals of the US economy, but it is also …