Asias trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of the linkages between governance and … trade at the Asian subregional level. Our results indicate that all individual governance indicators except regulatory … quality have significant impact on trade in Asia, of which government effectiveness is the most crucial for Asias trade …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would … suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the …

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 …

century. Over the past decade Asian economies established a large number of bilateral and a few sub-regional free trade areas … that have facilitated the rise in intra-regional trade and regional production networks. More recently, the region has been … effects will be small, the EU could face significant trade diversion at the commodity level. © 2014 The Earth Institute at …

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 …

international trade. Although Peru´s relations with Asia tend to reinforce its overall position as a mineral exporter, the country … has not experienced significant “de-industrialization”. On the contrary, through aggressive pursuit of free trade … agreements (FTA) and new foreign investment, trade with Asia has increased in scope and diversity, with considerable dynamism in …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …