This paper reviews the main features of market-oriented foreign trade reforms in planned economies. It considers reform initiatives aimed at expanding enterprise autonomy and breaking up the state monopoly of foreign trade, modifying the exchange rate system, and reforming the domestic price...

This paper presents updated and revised estimates for the World Trade Model. The model estimates import and export price and volume relationships for each of three types of merchandise trade--manufactured, raw material, and agricultural--for 14 of the largest industrial countries. The extended...

This paper reviews Nigeria’s non-oil export performance during the period 1970-90, analyzes the factors underlying the dismal performance, and estimates the supply-price elasticity of the exports for both the short and long run. A distinguishing feature of the analysis is the incorporation of...

This paper assesses the role of trade patterns in shaping the volatility of the effective exchange rate under two alternative peg regimes: a hard peg to a single currency and a peg to a basket of currencies. I link the changes in the nominal effective exchange rate of a pegged currency to the...

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China''s trade integration and technological change in a quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a ""balanced"" one in which China''s productivity grows...

The paper examines the renewable energy con- sumption-trade openness-economic growth ne- xus for Bosnia and Herzegovina using annual time series data covering the period of 1994- 2015. The variables in the analysis were checked using Augmented Dickey Fuller test statistics. The results obtained...

This work explains how the ideas of nationalist economists and policy makers have shaped the world economy for more than two centuries. It shows how nationalists have built transnational networks to disseminate their creed, exploiting inequality, financial crises and ethnic divisions to form the...

Die These, daß Verflechtungen grenznaher Unternehmen im Zuge der handelspolitischen Integration von Grenzräumen an Bedeutung gewinnen und die Konvergenz dieser Regionen befördern, kann anhand des Kooperationsgeschehens südwestsächsischer und nordböhmischer Unternehmen nicht bestätigt...