This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering … technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade intensities and not - as was preciously done - by traditional geographic …

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize on the …-cooperative policy equilibrium, welfare levels of the two countries will fall to their autarky levels. This gives scope for a trade … beneficial trade agreement may not exist if the import tariff has an upper bound. …

extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was …

The German trade in services continuously expands since 2001. So far unknown was the extent to which SMEs in the … service sector participate in this trade. Although only 14 % of SMEs in the service sector export, they contribute a higher …&D-results. Exporting SMEs in the economic sectors transport, trade and business services generate on average 20 % of their total annual …