-regional investment and trade relations. The share of services in GDP of South Asian countries has increased substantially with South Asia …, the paper lays out the importance of larger and broader RTAs like Pan Asia Free Trade Agreement (PAFTA) instead of narrow …

In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also …. Striking is, however, the outstanding pace of the new trade deals among traditional trading powers. Our paper addresses the … trade relations. It concludes that the recent push for FTAs by the big trading powers is a rapid means of mutual market …

developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … diversify production, linking to the Global Value Chains and developing adequate infra-structures facilitating digital trade as … overcoming some of these issues through various programs, all geared towards trade capacity building. It is argued that the work …

This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and international trade flows in … those supported by multilateral development banks. We find that road construction helped to reduce trade costs significantly … internal trade costs decreases by 20%, and the ad valorem rate of international trade costs decreases, on average, by 15 …

This paper examines the interplay of environmental policies with trade policies (tariffs) in a context of bilateral … trade and imperfect competition. …

In this paper, we analyze the trade war between two large countries when the trade policy is decided through majority … voting. We show how the trade war equilibrium depends on the median voter production factor relative endowment. We compare … this equilibrium to the one analyzed by Johnson where the trade policy is driven by an utilitarian benevolent dictator. …