China’s investment in the European Union (EU) increased significantly during the European financial crisis, but has been on the decline in recent years. The surge of Chinese investment has raised concerns and demands for analysis on the negative effects it could have on the EU companies and...

In this paper I examine the evolution of intra-industry trade (IIT) in intra-European trade in the period of accession of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). In order to identify changes in IIT in intra-European trade, I calculate the Grubel and Lloyd index for the static...

Bilateral trade between Korea and EU has been increasing with the exception of the period of the global financial crisis (2009) and Korea has enjoyed trade surplus since 1997. At the time when negotiations were launched for the Korea-EU FTA in 2007, EU was Korea's second largest trading partner...