Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … local dialect between regions have a sizable and significant positive impact on intra-national trade. We interpret this …

itself) to a sizable and statistically significant increase in trade between the member countries of EMU. In this paper, we … put the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective. We argue that the creation of the EMU was a continuation (or … strong evidence of a gradual increase in trade intensity between European countries. Once we control for this trend in trade …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

This short note tries to argue that distance is not necessarily harmful for trade. It is shown that there may be an … increase in the production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a … positive effect of distance on the volume of trade. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone difference raises welfare …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the …. In case of trade restriction, however, the rise or fall in unemployment depends on both the structure of the economy and …

Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable … pattern of trade between varieties and output per variety, which is indeterminate in a standard single good Dixit …

Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable … pattern of trade between varieties and output per variety, which is indeterminate in a standard single good Dixit …

In diesem kurzen Aufsatz werden die Kosten des Terrors für den internationalen Handel diskutiert. Unstrittig ist, dass … insbesondere der Quantifizierung) der Auswirkungen von Terrorismus auf den Handel treten allerdings eine Reihe methodischer … Terrorismus und Handel dokumentieren. …

This paper argues that distance is not necessarily harmful to trade. It is shown that there may be an increase in the … production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a positive effect of … distance on the volume of trade in general and virtual trade in particular. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone …