This study investigates the economic impacts of accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by the new member … countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of …-specific policy challenges associated with trade liberalization-- such as declining tariff revenues in Cambodia, and the negative …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

patterns of trade: a very high relative share of manufacturing firms with less than 50-100 employees and corresponding very low …

intra-industry trade (IIT), this paper theoretically and empirically investigates this relationship. The model presented …-country industry-panels for the bilateral trade of eight East Asian countries, Japan, and the United States with the EU, Asia, Japan … redress trade imbalances when substantial IIT exists. …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

intra-industry trade (IIT), this paper theoretically and empirically investigates this relationship. It is assumed that more …-country industry-panels for the bilateral trade of eight East Asian countries, Japan, and the United States with the EU, Asia, Japan …. The policy implication of the results is that exchange rate revaluations become a less powerful tool to redress trade …

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings … and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is … associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export earnings depending on the model. When we proxy trade finance by the sum of …