relationships in the region. The paper measures trade and investment performance in the world economy. This allows comparison of … bilateral and regional trade and investment flows. A measure of the effect of political distance on both trade and investment … flows is also defined. The growth of ChinaJapan trade and investment, despite political distance between the two countries …

unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …

Two propositions appear to be gaining wide currency, given the revealed preference for preferential trade agreements … growth. The second is that PTAs, particularly ones that go beyond goods trade, are an effective way to promote economic …

economic convergence, trade, investment, employment, wages, and income distribution. We show that NAFTA has basically failed to …

-country symmetric reciprocal dumping model of intra-industry trade with free entry and trade costs. We show that the consumption base … (destination principle) dominates the production base (origin principle) when trade costs are high or demand is linear. For lower … levels of trade costs and nonlinear demand, the welfare ranking of the two tax bases is ambiguous. Hence, there is no clear …

of goods and factors. Moreover, on the basis of statistical data, it demonstrates that the international trade, by …

Distribution Europe's position in trade in knowledge-intensive business services (by Joseph Francois and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 6 …-12) Keywords trade, knowledge-intensive business services Countries covered European Union, OECD, East Asia Topics International … Trade, Competitiveness and FDI What kind of socio-economic order do we need in Europe? (by Kazimierz Laski and Leon …

integration in the areas of energy and non-energy trade and transport, illicit drug trade, investment and capital flows, migration …