countries with BITs is roughly as large as the number of country-pairs that belong to bilateral or regional preferential trade … model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy … trade and investment costs among multiple countries in the presence of national and multinational firms. The empirical model …

There has been an explosive growth of free trade agreements (FTAs) in recent years. The World Trade Report 2011 of the … World Trade Organization (WTO) shows Asian members to be among the most active in signing preferential trade agreements …. This unprecedented growth has attracted much academic and policy discussion on aspects such as their effects on trade …

countries with BITs is roughly as large as the number of country-pairs that belong to bilateral or regional preferential trade … model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy … trade and investment costs among multiple countries in the presence of national and multinational firms. The empirical model …

of geoeconomic policy tools such as sanctions and embargoes. Second, the geopolitics of international trade, especially … domestic economy, e.g. on investments, credit, and inflation. Fifth, the economics of war, in particular research on trade and …

favours openness to trade at an early stage of development, while an autocrat complying with the preferences of capitalists … chooses to shelter the economy from trade. The trade regime interacts with economic institutions, and with policies on capital … economy attractive to foreign investors. Allowing for trade and foreign capital inflows are thus complementary policies that …