The paper analyses the potential trade impact of the forthcoming East African Community (EAC) customs union. It … examines the trade linkages among the member countries of the EAC and the extent to which the introduction of the EAC common … external tariff will liberalize their trade regimes. To gauge the potential trade impact of the formation of the customs union …

drive food demand in the coming decades. Baseline scenarios show food prices for maize, rice, and wheat would significantly … combines comprehensive process-based modeling of agricultural technologies with sophisticated global food demand, supply, and … trade modeling. This approach assesses the yield and food impact through 2050 of a broad range of agricultural technologies …

We analyze trade dynamics following past episodes of financial crises. Using an augmented gravity model and 179 crisis …

In this paper we estimate gravity models to see whether trade volumes of countries in the MENA region are significantly … show that the variables used in standard gravity models cannot explain a significant part of MENA's trade performance … inefficiencies in customs clearance processes, are important in explaining the MENA region's underperformance in trade. …

heavy reliance on global demand to a trade shock. …Since EU accession, trade flows have exhibited strong dynamics in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). During the period … and imports have evolved in CEE countries over 2002-07 and econometrically derives their contribution to trade, with a …