The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) was set up in 1993 and has already shown significant effects by 2010. This study empirically investigates the effect of trade creation on intra-ASEAN trade for the period of 1986 to 2010. Using the gravity model, we find that major determinants of bilateral trade in ASEAN are GDP, population, relative endowment, distance and common border. A dummy variable ...

This paper introduces a new trade model type. It combines the gravity model, well-known in international economics, with network theory. With this approach, complicated trade networks can be algebraically solved in form of systems of linear (differential) equations. Business cycles and productivity shocks can be represented via complex numbers or the Laplace transformation. With the help of thi...

This paper examines the impact of sanctions on trade, and how international relations influences the welfare implications of sanctions. Sanctions intend to punish target countries by inhibiting them from the gains from trade. The e↵ect of sanctions depends on not only the bilateral impact on trade but how much trade is diverted to other countries. I decompose international trade by the types of...

Context: Catheterizable pouches represent a good alternative in patients with continent urinary diversion (CUD) when neobladder reconstruction is contraindicated. Objective: This review summarizes the different techniques, indications and contraindications, functional results, outcomes, and complications of continent catheterizable pouches. Evidence acquisition: A PubMed Medline database resear...

background: this study compared the early success, complication and patient satisfaction rates of modified extraperitoneal radical cystectomy (mainz ii urinary diversion) with standard intraperitoneal radical cystectomy (continent ileocecal urinary diversion) in a group of patients with muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder. methods: from september 2009 until november 2013...

To quantify the implications of common currencies for trade and income, we use data for over 200 countries and dependencies. In our two-stage approach, estimates at the first stage suggest that belonging to a currency union/board triples trade with other currency union members. Moreover, there is no evidence of trade-diversion. Our estimates at the second stage suggest that every one percent in...