Foreign born people are uniquely qualified to stimulate trade between their present country of residence and the … country in which they were born. This study provides an empirical investigation of the link between migration and trade flows … for Sweden. Trade and migration data for Sweden and 180 partner countries between 2002 and 2007 are used to estimate an …

This study estimates the trade potential for India using an augmented Gravity model and then attempts to determine the … importance of trade remedies. Based on the panel data, this Gravity model is the first-ever attempt to estimate India’s trade … potential in the pre- and post- global economic and financial crisis period. The estimates of India’s global trade potential …

Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transaction costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to … trade integration than import tariffs. By estimating a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on … income, infrastructure, transaction costs and trade of selected Asian economies, this paper shows that the transaction costs …

This paper investigates the influence of immigration into Greece on the volumes of Greeces bilateral trade using a …

’s Eastern enlargement on current and future EU member countries under pure trade integration and with migration of skilled …

The paper examines Greek external trade following accession to the EU, placing emphasis on the 1990s. Using original … disaggregated data we find: (i) Mutually offsetting, stable trade creation/trade diversion in imports from EU and third countries … losses, more pronounced in the 1990s, especially in sectors where Greece holds a comparative advantage (i.e. trade surplus …

This paper examines two issues: 1) the welfare impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs), and 2) the effect of …, trade policy, smuggling and rules of origin. It is shown that the impact of form - ing a PTA between small countries in the …

This paper examines the determinants of trade balances of seven East Asian countries, using cointegration technique … exchange rate and trade regimes across sample countries. It is likely that liberalization of an exchange rate regime coupled … with liberalization of trade may act to dampen the J-curve effect. …

world have a role to play in bridging the gap between Iranian diaspora and exporters through trade promotion exhibitions and … workshops to encourage greater trade between Iran and the rest of the world. …

Alternative approaches to estimating the effects of nontariff measures (NTMs) on trade flows are discussed and … NTMs have a negative effect on the volume of bilateral trade for the detailed product under scrutiny; (iii) harmonization … of standards is trade enhancing. Case studies confirm several of these patterns, and also that perceived severity of NTMs …