trade. Since independence the Central Asian countries have continued to exploit their comparative advantage in raw material … exports, but their trade has been hampered by poor transport facilities and by failure to improve the soft infrastructure of … trade. Being landlocked exacerbates these weaknesses, but location could be turned to advantage as Central Asia is adjacent …

This paper investigates new developments in the pattern of machinery trade, with a focus on the extent and depth of … production networks in North America. We pay particular attention to North America's trade links with East Asia, which have … intensified in the last two decades. Investigation of changes in total trade value and the growth of trade on the extensive margin …

This paper reexamines the relationship between trade integration and business cycle synchronization (BCS) using new … value-added trade data for 63 advanced and emerging economies during 1995–2012. In a panel framework, we identify a strong … positive impact of trade intensity on BCS—conditional on various controls, global common shocks and country …

We examine how Korea’s capital flows and trade have been affected by the quantitative easing (QE) of the United … in the world market for trade. We find that QE had little direct impact on capital flows to Korea, and tapering is … the exchange rate spillover from QQME to Korea has been limited both on trade and capital flow fronts. …

strongest driver of this shift. Much of this impact unfolds through aggregate demand impulse from trade. As fiscal policy … the RoW, but has also gradually drifted away from the G7 in favour of the BRICs. Trade with the BRICs turns out to be the …

sugar cane). It also analyzes the development of the global sugar trade. The main aim of this paper is to define the basic … operating in the global market, both in terms of production and in terms of trade. It also identifies not only the most … important subjects of the global market from the viewpoint of the realized volume of production and trade, but also in terms of …

former British colonies. We attribute this finding to the particularly protectionist trade policy implemented by France …Empirical evidence suggests that belonging to an empire favours trade by lowering transaction costs and establishing … preferential trade agreements. Does the end of an empire invert this effect, and if so, through which channels? This paper uses an …

Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted … employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics … was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why …