This paper analyses trade specialisation dynamics in two Eastern European countries(Romania and Bulgaria – EEC-2) vis …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …

migration as a tool for increasing trade. We attempt to put this position to empirical scrutiny. Our results demonstrate that … migrants spur exports, especially along the extensive product margin of trade and for differentiated products, but with no … migration to facilitate trade may only be effective with respect to exports. This paper also contributes to the literature on …

the causal connection between lack of exposure to commercial trade and proclivity to sudden stops. On the theoretical … front, I show how exposure to trade raises the creditworthiness of countries and reduces the probability of sudden stops. In … debt is more attractive. Therefore, conditional on the amount that lenders are willing to loan, decreased exposure to trade …