Increased market access through trade liberalization can affect the markups, prices, and marginal costs of exporters. Understanding these dynamics is critical for firms and policymakers, particularly as they formulate export strategies. We examine…
This report explores the potential impact of a future Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on services trade. It highlights the growing importance of services in global trade and examines Pakistan’s…
This study examines the self-selection and the learning-by-exporting hypotheses to determine the direction of causality between firm’s productivity and its export status for the textile manufacturers in Punjab, Pakistan. Using disaggregated product…
Pakistan has not been able to significantly increase exports or diversify its export base towards higher value-added products which has both contributed to its perpetual balance of payments problems and impeded growth. To address this, it is crucial…
Freelancers in Pakistan earned around $400 million in both FY21 and FY22, accounting for about 15% of the $2.6 Billion in ICT exports. To learn more about the landscape of freelancing in Pakistan, we scraped the data on Pakistan-based freelancers…
We examine the relationship between low-priced intermediate inputs (via input tariff reductions) and export performance indicators using panel data from 166 countries from the years 2000-2015. Employing an instrumental variable approach, we show…
Based on Grossman and Esteban's (2008) task service model, this paper derives a mathematical model of how productive service trade competitiveness affects manufacturing firms’ production costs, and a theoretical model of how productive service…
The accelerated development of digital trade has emerged as a pivotal driver of international commerce and economic expansion, catalyzing structural transformations in global trade patterns and profound supply chain realignments while exerting novel…
With the continuous advancement of China's reform and opening-up, the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port has become a key project in China's economic development. Since 2018, the Chinese government has clarified Hainan's…
This paper selects manufacturing listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2011 to 2019 as research samples, matches relevant data from the IFR Database, the CSMAR Database, and the Wind Database, and investigates the impact…