A frontier of potential trade is constructed for trade flows from a world trade matrix of trade determinants to compare … East Asian trade performance with that of South Asia. The results suggest that East Asian trade, led by ASEAN, is … outperforming the world while South Asia lags behind significantly. Within East Asia, the transformation of Chianis trade …

The complex interaction between trade and politics is analysed for the JapanChina relationship using Granger causality … tests. The purpose is to determine the presence and direction of causation between trade and political events, both positive … and negative, and to gauge an idea of the lag length of causality. Trade is growing quickly between Japan and China …

relationships in the region. The paper measures trade and investment performance in the world economy. This allows comparison of … bilateral and regional trade and investment flows. A measure of the effect of political distance on both trade and investment … flows is also defined. The growth of ChinaJapan trade and investment, despite political distance between the two countries …

The Australia–United States free trade agreement (AUSFTA) came into effect in 2005. It was the second preferential … trade agreement that Australia signed, after its agreement with Singapore, and marked a departure from the primacy of … Australia’s previous trade policy of unilateral and multilateral trade liberalisation towards preferential liberalisation. This …

The Australia–United States free trade agreement (AUSFTA) came into effect in 2005. It was the second preferential … trade agreement that Australia signed, after its agreement with Singapore, and marked a departure from the primacy of … Australia’s previous trade policy of unilateral and multilateral trade liberalisation towards preferential liberalisation. This …

Up to this point, Taiwan has had discriminatory trade and investment policies towards China, severely limiting economic … engagement across the Straits. Not having free and open trade with China, one of the largest and most important parts of the East … trade deals with other countries. This would not seem a sensible way forward; rather Taiwan should pursue a multilateral …

institutional, behind-the-border barriers to trade and commerce. Focus on strengthening intellectual property rights, including … contribute to regional trade and prosperity. …

institutional, behind-the-border barriers to trade and commerce. Focus on strengthening intellectual property rights, including … contribute to regional trade and prosperity. …

cost effectively and more broadly. In line with this reasoning, we find in the data that less restrictive services trade … policies are associated with better human development outcomes across a range of sectors. Appropriate services trade …

cost effectively and more broadly. In line with this reasoning, we find in the data that less restrictive services trade … policies are associated with better human development outcomes across a range of sectors. Appropriate services trade …