This paper explores the impact of past and future growth in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China (PRC), and India--the ACI countries--on aggregate welfare, relative wages, and global emissions in the rest of the world. It outlines several analytical...

The international economic relations have changed within the context of world trade in recent decades. This change have been observed by examining the rank of leading exporter countries in manufacture and commercial services trade and their sub sectors. The shifts have showed that the effects in...

Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization...

We investigate the dramatic 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer...

Whether international economic integration arrangements result in a more liberal trade at the multilateral level cannot be proven with ease. Integration may start this process, but it may also reverse it. New mega-integration deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive...

The Great Recession of 2008–09 provided a fertile ground for protectionist pressures to increase. It caused a negative shock to the global economy that is comparable with the Great Depression of the 1930s. International trade suffered a historical collapse in 2009, but trade flows quickly...

Für die wirtschaftspolitische Analyse ist die Betrachtung bilateraler Handelssalden nur begrenzt sinnvoll. Es kommt auf den Wertschöpfungsgehalt des Handels an, denn dieser ist für die heimische Wohlfahrt, für heimische Löhne, Kapitaleinkommen und Steueraufkommen maßgeblich. Die...

Daten zur Produktionsstruktur der Welt, die aus Input-Output-Tabellen entnommen werden, zeigen, dass der ausländische Wertschöpfungsanteil, der in deutschen Exporten steckt, zwischen 1995 und 2008 von 13,5 auf 20% gestiegen ist. Somit ist für Deutschland der langfristige Trend zur...

We investigate the dramatic 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer...

Based on a massive collection of data, this paper tries to make a detailed comparison between the foreign trade development patterns of two export-oriented regional economies: the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. It is shown that both of the deltas have made spectacular progress in...