This paper investigates empirically whether the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement had a building bloc or stumbling bloc effect … effects for Malaysia. This suggests that overall the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has rather helped than hindered non …-discriminatory trade liberalization. …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

The current paper aims to succinctly highlight and discuss the evolution of Romania’s foreign trade between 2002 and … both the quantitative aspect (trade volume) and as well under a qualitative dimension (the structural changes underwent by … the Romanian trade, as a direct consequence of the changes that occurred in economy). In order to emphasize these …

Gravity models are used to explore the determinants of trade, making use of fixed effect linear estimators and a … Poisson estimator (as in Santos Silva and Tenreyro, 2006) with fixed effects. Beyond usual determinants of trade such as GDP …, distance, contiguity, free trade areas and language, this analysis mainly focuses on the role of product market regulation …

The recent theoretical literature has focused on the importance of extensive and intensive margins of trade in the case … margins of trade. All these studies have used disaggregated bilateral flows data (6 digit). However, not even the finest level … of disaggregation in the publicly available trade data is enough to single out individual products. We try to fill this …

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 …

The idea of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement goes beyond the traditional concept of trade liberalization … and, apart from the elimination of tariffs in trade of goods, it also includes the reduction/ removal of non …-tariff barriers, the liberalization of the investment regime, the liberalization of trade in services, and the far …

intra-EU trade. Next, we analyze the effect of EU harmonization of technical regulations on domestic and intra-EU trade. We … more intra-EU trade but, apparently, did not affect the so called border effect. …

simultaneously enhancing security and reducing costs for secure trade and for individuals. The study concludes that these new …