Trade

The purpose of this paper is to discuss antitrust law with regard to federal regulations. In the form of a case study, this paper will examine the legal obstacles faced by the merger proposal between US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines’ parent corporation AMR. The focus of the paper is to examine the legal […]

“If the Trade-Off Theory were true, then firms ought to have much higher debt levels than we observe in reality.” — Miller (in “Debt and Taxes” published in Journal of Finance, 1977) The simulation model does a good job of capturing some dynamic aspects of Diageo’s capital structure problem. By using random variables to model for […]

The Atlantic migration of Europeans and Africans to America and the commercial activities associated with it created an economy that for the first time in history could be called global. For many years, historians have relied upon the word mercantilism to capture this international world. Over the last decade, as research has focused more intently […]

China’s Trade Disputes Disputes over protection of Intellectual Property Complainant: United States Respondent: China Before China Joined the GAIT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) in 1986, it was a planned economy. What that does mean? It means that the government was in charge of the production, investment and prices. In other words, the government […]

There is common rationale for cultivating a common ground for economic interaction between the Russian federation and European and the Global Community which can serve as roadmap. This has been reflected in the outcome of the “Russia-EU Moscow Summit in May 2005” (Pankov, 2007) which targeted to develop the future establishment of the concerned arties […]

In this paper, I base this model on the gravity model of international trade as Smith (1999, 2000, and 2002) and Rafiquzzaman (2002). The gravity trade model states that the amount of trade between two countries can be evaluated on their country-level characteristics (Anderson, J. E. , 1979). The basic gravity model can be derived […]

Evaluate the disadvantages of further trade liberalisation to the UK. (30) Trade liberalisation is considered to be the removal or reduction of restrictions or barriers on the free exchange of goods between nations. This includes the removal or reduction of both tariff (duties and surcharges) and non-tariff obstacles (like licensing rules, quotas and other requirements). […]