Towards the end of 2008 the global crisis initiated to manifest itself in international trade. In this paper we show that the slump in global demand and the slowing-down in economic growth translated into a substantial reduction in international trade that has affected the cross-border trade of...

In this paper I have examined the trade effects of European integration, analising four phases in the process of European integration. The first one (up to 1973) can be seen as an example of "traditional" regional integration, where the main effects stem from the reduction of formal tariff...