international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates …

international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

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 …

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an … transactions, we estimate a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade as well as local manufacturing employment and …

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 …