cooperation than the environment after World War II. By extension, club theory suggests that Regional Trade Agreements are not … the creation of an inter-bloc international organization dedicated to reduce blocs' barriers to trade and finance …

This paper demonstrates that international ownership can mitigate the terms of trade externalities that lead large … terms of trade cost-shifting motives cannot ensure efficient trade policy regimes in an environment with international …

of a destination-based VAT regime. Oil and gas trade is a major source of Russian tax revenue, which is collected partly … through an origin-based VAT on intra-CIS energy trade. The paper shows that Ukraine may try to capture part of the tax revenue …

This paper provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of agricultural trade using a gravity model. The data … set covers bilateral trade in agricultural goods for 152 countries over the periods 1990-93 and 1999-2002. The estimations … geographic determinants of trade. However, some developing regions that are often thought to be the main victims of industrial …

penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade … policy disguised as fair trade policy, but may also help overcome the informational problems with regard to determining the … optimal strategic trade policy …

We explore how outcomes of trade policy retaliation (Nash tariff games) are affected when trade simultaneously takes … in goods trade are endogenously determined, and retaliatory trade policy towards goods can affect these and monetary … trade models show different retaliatory trade outcomes from conventional goods only models. We use a general equilibrium …

disintegration of trade, capital and labor flows, and from 1950 to the present. This essay attempts to understand the performance of …, maybe because its point of departure on the scale of development was extremely low. The participation of the flows of trade … was mediocre, with high barriers imposed against trade and foreign investment, while at the same time its financial sector …