This report looks at the prospects for economic integration between Ukraine and the European Union. It starts from presentation of the background of the EU-Ukraine relations and then carries a detailed assessment of implementation of selected economic articles of the EU-Ukraine Action Plan that...

This paper assesses India’s potential welfare gains from Regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) such as RCEP using a machine learning approach to examine the inherent structure of export and import pattern of India with member countries. These patterns reveal several interesting facts that...

We show that global trade negotiations can prevent global free trade. In a simple model where global tariff negotiations precede sequential Free Trade Agreement (FTA), we show FTA formation can expand all the way to global free trade in the absence of global tariff negotiations but global free...

Previous studies on the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia have assumed full utilization of preferences. The evidence suggests that this assumption is seriously in error, with the estimated uptake particularly low in East Asia. In this paper, we assume a more realistic...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) presents strong potential to mold regional trade and investment patterns well into the future and to influence the direction of global economic cooperation at a challenging time. This paper evaluates the RCEP and estimates its potential...