gravity model approach, an estimation of the impact of sanctions on international trade. The study reports panel estimates … large negative impact on bilateral trade, while this is not the case for limited and moderate sanctions. A second estimation … focuses on the impact of unilateral US sanctions on bilateral trade between target countries and the other G-7 countries. The …

This paper fits a gravity model to the trade of 76 market economies. It then applies the model to data on East European … mutual trade and trade with developing countries, but it will increase trade with industrial counties by factors of three to … thirty. West Germany and the USA are the principal beneficiaries of this new trade, increasing their exports and imports by …

This paper investigates the determinants of trade between Oman and its major Asian trading partners in order to gauge … the impact of the process of trade liberalisation. The empirical findings based on the gravity model indicate that Oman … statistically insignificant effect of trade liberalisation on non-oil exports. These findings certainly have policy implications in …

literature about trade and environment, in which the focus is posed on the explicit or surreptitious nexuses existing between … environmental issues and trade relationships of North with South of the World. The second one analyses the role of the environmental … issues in the con text of the international organizations for the world trade, by the examination of some trade disputes in …

decades. We analyze whether a reduced partisan influence is due to more trade openness, larger budget deficits or the creation … changes in trade openness, indebtedness and budget deficits have not changed the partisan influence on social spending, they …

The purpose of this article is to assess the impact of the three main East-Asian free trade agreements (Asean, Asean …-China and Asean-South Korea) on intra-regional and extra-regional trade. To do this, we use a panel-data gravity model with … multilateral trade, with the creation of imports to the rest of the world outweighing the diversion of extra-regional imports. The …

The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions … towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the … new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard evidence on what works and what doesn’t. On the one hand, rigorous …