This article analyses whether greater international trade, democracy and reduced military spending lower hostility between India and Pakistan. Conflict between the two nations can be best understood in a multivariate framework where variables such as economic performance, multilateral trade with...

Available statistics tell us little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, we perform grass roots detective work to uncover the geography of value added in the case of a Nokia N95 smartphone circa 2007. The...

Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, this paper uses panel cointegration techniques to investigate the short and the long-run relationship between CO2 emissions, economic growth, renewable energy consumption and trade openness for a panel of 24 Sub-Saharan Africa countries...

This article uses daily border-crossing data within the Niagara region of Ontario and New York to evaluate the Canadian market for a U.S.-based National Hockey League (NHL) team, the Buffalo Sabres. We conservatively estimate that 15% of attendees at Buffalo Sabres home games travel from Canada....

The effect of the global financial crisis on the international trade patterns of developed countries has been one of the main focuses of recent scholarship. However, world trade depends evermore on emerging markets increases every day. Therefore, it is important to study the level of the...

Under the influence of the global economy recession, the world goods exports, in dollar terms (nominal terms) registered a 23% drop in 2009, at a level of USD 12.1 trillion, the fall being larger than most economists had predicted. In 2009, commercial services exports registered a drop of 13 per...

Globalization poses the imperative for firms to link with other actors and find new ways to interact and learn from the relationship. Employing original empirical evidence and featuring new case studies from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Nicaragua, Upgrading to Compete shows that the form of...

The increased trade in agricultural value added products has internationalized production and marketing systems. As such, a variety of forms of value chain relationships have emerged (outgrower schemes, contract farming, marketing contracts etc.) that have replaced the arms length market...

Este artículo precisa algunos conceptos básicos relacionados con la normalización técnica. Ello es necesario para entender esta noción y por qué puede ser un obstáculo al comercio internacional. Las barreras técnicas son ubicadas por la doctrina dentro de las denominadas barreras no...

El presente trabajo pretende resumir los aspectos positivos de la relación comercial y de inversión de China en América Latina y evaluar si la región podría contar con ésta, de una manera relativamente estable. Con ese fin se hará una evaluación de la evolución reciente de la economía...