world. This raises the issue of the relationship between economic and political integration. The theoretical model shows … that, in an insecure world, the interplays between security and economic forces shape the decision to form a regional …

yields economically plausible and statistically significant estimates of the declining effect of “national borders” on world …

strategic manipulation of world prices. The policy prediction is unclear, however, since international cross-ownership also …

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …

actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

estimation approach, we find that WTO membership has promoted world trade to a larger extent than Rose's results seem to indicate …In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not … zero trade and leaves room for WTO membership to promote trade at the extensive margin of trade. Relying on a Tobit …