? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have minor trade linkages and face asymmetrical patterns of shocks. This …

This paper examines the relationship between fixed exchange rate arrangements and trade using a gravity model of … international trade together with bilateral trade data from 24 countries from the Caribbean and Latin America for the period 1960 …-2001. The analysis indicates that a credible fixed peg has a positive impact on the value of bilateral trade. Moreover, the …

presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade … many post-conflict situations. The real exchange measure and trade measures suggest some mild erosion of competitiveness in …

This paper investigates empirically the relevance of external, domestic, and financial weaknesses as well as trade and …

This paper provides econometric estimates of trade elasticities for Brazil obtained through cointegration and vector … auto regression models and controlling for the effects of exchange rate volatility, capacity utilization, and changes in … responsiveness of Brazil's trade flows to the real exchange rate, but (ii) the GDP growth rates targeted by the new government may …

.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, suggests. We find that exchange rate flexibility has not prevented economic integration between …

The empirical study shows that the equilibrium real exchange rate in Mauritius has been affected by the terms of trade …, as well as by other fundamental determinants. It assesses the challenges posed to Mauritius’s trade performance by the … expiration of the preferential trade arrangements. It examines the empirical relationship among domestic prices, money, foreign …