The paper provides an overview of the potential social, economic and environmental impacts of an EU-Libya FTA as gauged by the EU-Libya Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA). The main potential benefits to both the EU and Libya from the proposed trade agreement come from closer...

This article presents some econometric models that have into account both supply and demand sides as determinants of real Exports, and the important relationships that exist between industrial development and foreign trade. The models also focus on the positive role that human capital plays to...

Over its first two years, the Trump administration has aggressively reshaped U.S. trade policy. One of its most controversial initiatives is the expansive use of national security to justify imposing tariffs and quotas. Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 gives the president authority...

The book is focused on the importance of interaction between innovation, competitiveness and foreign trade. For the first time with reference to the Republic of Moldova, a multidimensional analysis that allows estimating the influence of export and import flows on the elements of innovational...

When trading the oil market an artificial intelligent system utilizing cortical and subcortical computing can perform better than a buy and hold strategy between Jan 3, 2005 through April 21, 2015. A cortical and subcortical algorithmic system can recognize patterns in a dataset, and therefore...

This study investigates the potential trade flows between countries of South, East and South East Asian region as a result of tariff liberalization using the GTAP-model. The study reveals that tariff liberalization has positive effects on all country groupings of South, East and South East Asian...

The Doha Ministerial Declaration emphasized that priority should be given to improving market access for products originating in the Least Developed Countries. In this paper, we analyze the importance of this proposition with respect to market access in the Triad economies. We first present a...

This working paper draws on historical and contemporary data on tariffs, non tariff barriers, and transportation costs (for the United States and its major trading partners) to estimate the role of policy liberalization in US merchandise trade growth over the period 1980 to 2006. Both partial...

A few economists, researchers and many pundits in international business and international economics suppose that international trade has either begun to decrease or is about to decrease due to changes in the structure of the world economy. This paper rejects the empirical basis of this...