We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … trade links, applying highly disaggregated data at the 6 digit HS level over the period 1995 - 2010. We show that the most … shares and comparative advantage. We show that the number of trade links at the product level where both regions are active …

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …

Governance is one of the key factors that shape the economic performance of an economy in terms of economic and trade … with good trade governance can compile high quality trade statistics; the latter being a close proxy for the former. This … study comes up with a global ranking of the quality of (trade) governance. The paper also compares our bias-free indicator …

many potential gains from entering into free trade agreements (FTAs) with its neighbors, who collectively form a large and …

challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

order to model the trade between Turkey and the EU, we employ a time series analysis, namely cointegration method with error …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

of time consistency of liberalization under the so-called Bogor target of achieving free trade within APEC in 2010 (2020 …

The auto sector in Pakistan has been a persistent opponent of trade liberalisation in the country. This has entailed …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …