This paper addresses the intra-regional trade of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely, the … United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. We have found that the intra-regional trade is still at … a modest level, where the trade intensity index showed negative signals except the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. In addition …

International competitiveness is often regarded as crucial for the attainment of gains from trade, which may lead … Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, it becomes a necessary condition for the attainment of gains from trade and it applies to … all forms of trade that lead to economy-wide gains. The paper proceeds by reviewing first the concepts and measurements of …

International competitiveness is often regarded as crucial for the attainment of gains from trade, which may lead … Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, it becomes a necessary condition for the attainment of gains from trade and it applies to … all forms of trade that lead to economy-wide gains. The paper proceeds by reviewing first the concepts and measurements of …

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China’s impact … on Latin America’s trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China´s growth in the last years implied a growing … Cone countries. -- bilateral trade ; gravity model ; poisson regression ; China ; Latin America …

To estimate correctly the effect of variable trade costs on firms’ exports, the gravity equation should control for the … of exporting firms by reporter and partner country. We show that not controlling for the extensive margin of trade … introduces very serious biases in the estimated trade cost coefficients. …

productivity increases to the same degree as imports of high-technology goods. Therefore, the removal of barriers to trade and to …

has benefited German foreign trade in particular. This applies especially to automotive and mechanical engineering …. However, this geographical reorientation of German export trade in favor of the BRICS countries could soon reach its limits …