Integration, Disintegration and Trade in Europe: Evolution of Trade Relations During the 1990s

Brazilian Trade Liberalization and Integration in the 1990s

This article aims to review the process of Brazilian trade liberalization and integration over the last decade of the century. Emphasis is given to the analysis of the two principle integration projects in which Brazil has been engaged: the implementation of the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosul) and the negotiations on the formation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Another is...

R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration And Expansion Of Trade Flows In East- West Asia And Pacific

Intermediate Goods Trade and Macroeconomic Volatility: The Case of Iran-China Trade Relations

This paper tries to analyze the impacts of intermediate goods trade on production, consumption, investment, net exports, employment, labor wage and capital rent of Iran in its bilateral trade relations with China. This analysis has been done by modeling, solving and calibrating an international real business cycles (IRBC) model in period 1980-2009. The results show that when elasticity of subst...

Investigating the situation and evolution of carpet production and trade in Sultan abad during the Qajar period

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Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe.∗

In models with heterogeneous firms trade integration has a positive impact on aggregate productivity through the selection of the best firms as import competition drives the least productive ones out of the market. To quantify the impact of firm selection on productivity, we calibrate and simulate a multi-country multi-sector model with monopolistic competition and variable markups using firm-l...