Annotation. Introduction. During the years of Ukrainian independence, China has risen from a relatively insignificant country in Asia to biggest trade partner Ukraine surpassing even Russia and other post-Soviet republics both amount importance bilateral trade. To fully understand current dynamics between China, it is necessary explore history these relations ancient times stage improve strateg...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has altered previous notions of distance and led to discussions in the popular press of the “death of distance.” Geographic distance typically results in diminished trade flows between countries, but does ICT play a role in overcoming geographic distance? This article examines the key hypothesis that ICT reduces the cost associated with the conduct...

This paper establishes a model to explore how all the countries in the world export to an importer. The trade frictions of an exporter include both a variable cost and a fixed cost, and the exporter’s bilateral trade relationship is represented by the exported value, the number of exporting firms, and the average price of exported products. The model relaxes the usual assumption that the price ...

s: This paper examines the optimal trade negotiation strategies in the trade negotiation involving multi-parties such as Doha Development Agenda, which is characterized by asymmetric multiple negotiators with multi-trade issues. Due to the consensus rule, which is the formal decision making rule of WTO, bilateral bargaining formula is often taken simultaneously with the multilateral bargaining ...

This paper deals with the quantification of GMO regulations on bilateral trade flows. A composite index of the ‘complexity’ of such regulations for sixty countries as well as an ‘objective’ score for six GMO regulatory sub-dimensions has been developed. Using a gravity model, we show how bilateral ‘similarity’ in GMO regulations, affect trade flows for the composite index and its components. Re...