type="main" xml:id="twec12076-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper investigates the two-way relationship between deep integration and production networks trade. We capture deep integration with a set of indices constructed in terms of policy areas covered in preferential trade agreements. We estimate...</p>

With further declines in international assistance expected over the coming years, the government of Afghanistan faces a new challenge of enabling new growth drivers. One such driver is trade. Decades of civil war and military occupation that culminated in the fall of the Taliban in 2001, have...

Evidence suggests that Pakistan has the potential for much faster and more diversified economic growth. Energizing trade can help Pakistan to realize its growth potential. Pakistan's inward-oriented trade policies have had the effect of stalling Pakistan's integration into regional and global...

This paper presents a theoretical model of the optimal choice for firms between offshoring and hiring immigrant workers, in conditions of asymmetric information about their ability and effort in production (symmetric information is assumed for home born workers). When a domestic firm hires an...