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 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 paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows … measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a … doubling in the number of terrorist incidents is associated with a decrease in bilateral trade by about 4 percent. …

This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows … measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a … doubling in the number of terrorist incidents is associated with a decrease in bilateral trade by about 4 percent. …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …