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 …

effect of double taxation treaties on the bilateral trade of Vietnam with ASEAN member states, thereby making an extensive …'s trade performance, not exclusively with ASEAN but also with EU partner countries. Nevertheless, under some circumstances …, the conclusion of tax treaties seems ineffective in strengthening export capacity or narrowing trade deficits for Vietnam …

International trade costs are of vital importance because they determine trade patterns and therefore economic … performance. This paper develops a new micro-founded measure of international trade costs. It is based on a multi-country general … equilibrium model of trade that incorporates bilateral 'iceberg' trade costs. The model results in a gravity equation from which …