There is strong empirical evidence showing that political relations have an impact on aggregate bilateral trade flows … and test the mechanism in reduced-form. We implement a difference-in-differences approach with monthly trade flows and a … trade flows, and that the response is larger for products in markets with low price gaps to alternative sourcing partners …

Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade … waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important …-security issues such as trade. A dearth of popular awareness on trade-related activities between India and Pakistan may limit the …

The idea of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement goes beyond the traditional concept of trade liberalization … and, apart from the elimination of tariffs in trade of goods, it also includes the reduction/ removal of non …-tariff barriers, the liberalization of the investment regime, the liberalization of trade in services, and the far …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

With the ongoing trade normalisation process between India and Pakistan, opportunities to integrate have opened up … segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries. Here, an empirical and theoretical analysis of … India-Pakistan trade using some statistical indicators reveals low levels of current trade but huge trade potential. Since …

The auto sector in Pakistan has been a persistent opponent of trade liberalisation in the country. This has entailed …

clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … culture and the importance of the sector in their economies. However, the level of bilateral trade in textile and clothing at … USD 722 million (2013) is dismal as compared to the trade potential of USD 2.10 billion. To make a case for increasing …

trade liberalisation. This paper uses the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury (NT) firm-level panel … to assess the response of South African firms to trade policy changes and demand shocks in destination markets between … firm level. Also, trade liberalisation policies in the destination country positively affect the number of exported goods …

Research about trade liberalization's impact on markups has focused on manufacturing due to data availability … considerations. How do these effects vary across sectors? Which industries become more and less competitive as trade barriers are … eliminated? We leverage firm-level tax records from the universe of formal-sector businesses in Costa Rica with the 2009 trade …

transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … the trade-to-grossdomestic-product ratio to measure openness often fail to find a direct effect of openness on poverty over … effectiveness of the factor proportion channel may be due to limitations of the commonly used measure of trade openness: the trade …