The expansion of the world trade, the unprecedented opening of the national markets, the regional integration and the …

This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade – what they might look like, what sort of political economy … here to stay; world trade is regulated by a motley assortment of unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; 2 …) this motley assortment is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade will require a …

The question of Preferential Trading Areas, as we should call them in preference of the misleading phrase "Free Trade … Areas" (and Customs Unions) which falsely equates them in the public mind and discourse with nonpreferential Free Trade, has …

Australia’s external trade is relatively low compared with the size of its economy. Indeed, Australia’s openness ratio … understand Australia’s low openness by analysing the empirical determinants of aggregate country trade. We begin by estimating a … standard gravity model of bilateral trade. Although the model appears to fit the bilateral data very well, it does a relatively …

This paper considers the endogenous determination of administered trade rules and investigates the effects on lobbying …

trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the period 1984 to 1994. The countries … Uruguay. The aim of the project is to make transparent the effects of agricultural trade and price policies on agricultural …

regional trading arrangements (RIAS) on trade policy towards non-members in a three-good, three-country model. …

imitation when trade is relatively expensive, in which case the global growth rate is higher and the international wage gap … smaller than if both regions innovate. This changes fundamentally for some intermediate levels of trade costs, where there …