This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing countries over the period 2000-2014. Using a fixed-effect estimator and the local projection approach, we find that an increase in domestic gasoline or diesel price adversely affects...

English Abstract: Korea and the United States declared the start of negotiations for the establishment of a free trade agreement. The FTA will include investment chapter. That means the Korea-US BIT(Bliateral Investment Treaty) talk, which has been deadlocked since 1998, resumes as a part of FTA...

This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on a large firm-level dataset, tariff data by sector and aggregate indicators of international...

How does financial friction influence gains from trade? To answer this question, this paper develops a general equilibrium model of international trade with cross-country financial friction heterogeneity, as the source of comparative advantage. Although product markets are competitive,...

This paper studies the potential long-term effects of three illustrative scenarios using a multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) trade model calibrated to 165 countries. The first scenario estimates effects from potential U.S. auto tariffs. The second analyzes a ‘transactional...

In this paper, we perform different simulations to assess the effect of the Trump administration's international trade policy on the Chinese and American economies in the next five years. To do so, we develop a new economic simulator, namely the “Foreign Trade War Smash Wave Effect Simulator...

This paper presents a simulator to observe how a trade war can affect the economic performance of both countries or regions. This new simulator is entitled “The Foreign Trade War Smash Wave Effect Simulator (FTWSWE-Simulator).” The FTWSWE-Simulator works under the concept of the inter-spaces...

The study examines the perception of the respondents about problems and prospects of cross border trade in Agartala Land Customs Station (LCS). It obtained primary data from 150 respondents consisting of 100 exporters-importers and 50 laborers from Agartala LCS using different non-probability...

This paper seeks to understand the competitive impact of State restrictions to M&A transactions which target domestic corporations. In the economic literature, a rich body of papers has examined the impact of State restrictions in terms of market access, international trade and FDI. In contrast,...

In Philippines - Distilled Spirits, the Appellate Body of the WTO reaffirmed that the determination of 'likeness' in the GATT should be about the competitive relationship between products. A coherent methodology for the determination of 'likeness' has finally begun to emerge, with the same...