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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Constructing fully traceable scenarios based on assumptions grounded in the literature, we are also able to isolate the relative impact of key economic drivers. We find that the stakes for developing countries are particularly high: The emergence of new players in the world economy,...