We exploit a nationwide VAT rebate reform in China to study the impact of intranational trade barriers on exports and exporting firms. As a result of shifting rebate burden, the reform leads to greater incentives of the provincial governments to block the domestic flow of non-local goods to...

We applied the threshold autoregressive and difference-in-differences techniques to examine the effects of adopting a common currency on bilateral trade flows between member states of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) customs union, over the period from 1980 to 2013. We...

We applied the threshold autoregressive and difference-in-differences techniques to examine the effects of adopting a common currency on bilateral trade flows between member states of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) customs union, over the period from 1980 to 2013. We...

On 1 January 2021, the African Union launched the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). This Regional Action Group for Africa report is part of a series investigating five priority pathways to drive economic recovery and build resilience in the context of the AfCFTA Agreement. It...

La firma del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN), ahora Tratado entre los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, los Estados Unidos de América y Canadá (T-MEC), se tradujo en un incremento significativo de los intercambios comerciales entre los tres países. En los últimos años, ha...

Despite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Owing to persistent delays in the implementation of the SADC integration agenda, infrastructure connectivity is still...

Despite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Owing to persistent delays in the implementation of the SADC integration agenda, infrastructure connectivity is still...

Get your hands off my beer -- The house the beavers built -- Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups --A turkey farmer takes on the Wheat Board -- A potash cartel and its Canadian kingpin -- Gravity and the internal trade barrier -- American apples, Korean beef, and Canadian beer -- Think...

The aim of the paper is to identify the trade barriers imposed by the Western Balkan countries. All barriers, whether tariff or non-tariff, undoubtedly impede the normal development of trade between countries. Therefore, the paper examines merchandise trade patterns in the Western Balkan region...

It is well known that various forms of non-tariff trade barriers exist within a country. Empirically, it is difficult to measure these barriers as they can take many forms. We take advantage of a nationwide VAT rebate policy reform in China as a natural experiment to identify the existence of...

It is well known that various forms of non-tariff trade barriers exist within a country. Empirically, it is difficult to measure these barriers as they can take many forms. We take advantage of a nationwide VAT rebate policy reform in China as a natural experiment to identify the existence of...

The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra-regional trade. To achieve this objective, we use gravity model estimated with the Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) techniques. Our results show that the number of...

Africa is one of the most economic-integrated continents by a number of regional trade agreements in the continent. There are about 30 bilateral and multilateral trade agreements within the continents so that each African country is a member of at least one regional trade agreement. Trade...

The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra-regional trade. To achieve this objective, we use gravity model estimated with the Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) techniques. Our results show that the number of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sustaining South Asia’s Regional Integration Process -- Chapter 3. Bay of Bengal Integration: The New Agenda -- Chapter 4. Three Decades of SAARC and the Unfinished Agenda of Regional Integration -- Chapter 5. Harnessing the Potential of Regional Value...

Long-run economic growth in Turkey : sources, pitfalls, and prospects / M. Aykut Attar -- Puzzling out the feldstein-horioka paradox for Turkey by a time-varying parameter approach / Dilem Yildirim and Onur A. Koska -- Regional dynamics and outlook -- The effects of economics incentive packages...

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the...