The positive association between trade openness and income has been debated over years due to serious estimation flaws prevailing in the cross-country empirical trade literature. The present paper contributes to this debate by re-examining the long-run relationship between trade openness and...

We study the implications of reference dependency and loss aversion features of individual preferences in trade policy determination and show these behavioural features help explain why governments change the trade restrictiveness in order to cushion the domestic prices from world price shocks....

A voluminous literature estimates price transmission from world markets to domestic markets ignoring unobserved common factors that affect all the domestic markets. This paper reconsiders the long-run and short-run transmission elasticity of world commodity price shocks to domestic markets using...

This paper re-estimates the constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) specification of aggregate production function using newly constructed annual data on physical and human capital stocks for a panel of 134 countries observed over the period 1960-2011. In our estimation, we allow parameters to...

The fairly widespread view on the positive association between trade openness and income has been debated over the years due to serious estimation flaws prevailing in the cross-country empirical literature. This paper contributes to this debate by re-examining the long-run relationship between...

The positive association between trade openness and income has been debated over years due to serious estimation flaws prevailing in the cross-country empirical trade literature. The present paper contributes to this debate by re-examining the long-run relationship between trade openness and...

This report assesses the future impact of two dynamically transforming economies – China and India – on Russia’s economy. China is slowing down and rebalancing its economy whereas India is rapidly expanding. What does this hold for Russia? The report begins with a snapshot of findings,...

The GSP scheme was initiated by UNCTAD in 1968 with the objective of enabling developing country exports to enter developed country markets under preferential rates. Sri Lanka has been a beneficiary under the GSP scheme over the last three decades. However, meeting the scheme’s objective of...