What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms' innovative activities? Does the increase in … competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

for these effects by focusing on trade policy, a ubiquitous but often overlooked source of uncertainty, when a firm's cost … of export market entry is sunk. While an explicit purpose of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to secure long term … prospective exporters. Within a dynamic model of heterogeneous firms, I show that trade policy uncertainty will delay the entry of …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

This short note tries to argue that distance is not necessarily harmful for trade. It is shown that there may be an … positive effect of distance on the volume of trade. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone difference raises welfare … increase in the production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a …

-regulatory convergence has also contributed to the spur of cross-border financial transactions. Trade in goods, while highly correlated with …

The optimism surrounding aid for trade (AfT) led scholars and practitioners to probe its link with trade performance of … group. The results for the components of AfT from OECD countries are mixed, with AfT for "trade education and training" the … to Africa have played little role in Africa's trade with China, with infrastructure and economic size of African …

This study examines the effect of relative economic distance (RED) between countries on bilateral foreign trade and …'s trade and FDI inflows. The economic distance between Vietnam and her partner countries has a significantly positive … between Vietnam and her partner countries. Modified gravity models are estimated using the procedure of panel …

seizures of counterfeits that were illegally traded across borders during 2011 2013 involved goods commercialized by digital … by illegal international trade of counterfeits are digital technology companies. The majority of these (58%) are big … motion picture. About 34% of digital technology companies affected by international trade of counterfeits are located in the …