. Unilateral decoupling of the EU from China (a doubling of trade costs) would reduce real income in the EU on average by 0 … decline by 1.4 percent (48.4 bn EUR). China would also lose from such a trade war, with real income declining by 1.3 percent …. Should the EU increase its trade barriers against all its non-European trading partners, real income in the Union would fall …

Cultural proximity increases bilateral trade flows through a trade-cost and a bilateral-affinity (preferences) channel …-invariant, in a gravity model of bilateral trade, the time dimension of the ESC data allows to identify the preferences effect. The … find robust evidence for a sizable preferences effect, the impact of cultural proximity on trade runs largely through the …

This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the … Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large … states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion, with …

) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i … variables - education, governance or openness - result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …

computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin …-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and trade's R&D content, and falls with distance to the … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia - SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …