This chapter focuses on the estimation and interpretation of gravity equations for bilateral trade. This necessarily …

This paper explores the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders on international and … distance effects increase over time for the same-age citations. This increasing effect of borders and distance is associated … with strengthened knowledge agglomeration over time. Nevertheless, both border and distance effects decrease with the age …

This chapter focuses on the estimation and interpretation of gravity equations for bilateral trade. This necessarily …

Does trade raise growth rates of commodity exporters less than those of industrial goods exporters? Do industrial … countries gain more from trade? Do world trade booms over the past two centuries help account for the widening gap between rich …, and the answer is yes to all three. World trade booms have always been associated with commodity price booms and thus with …

, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …

globalization of services, including economic linkages between countries through trade and investment flows, people mobility and … globalization of services and its implications for economies. The papers in this issue address various dimensions of the … the impact of services globalization on the domestic economy. The evidence on some of these dimensions is highlighted by …

A large and growing number of countries participate in multiple preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which … increasingly entail broad cooperation over policies extending far beyond trade barriers. I review the traditional and … nontraditional motives for PTAs and their empirical determinants as well as their impacts on trade and on multilateral liberalization …

sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …-1878. There were three forces at work that account for Mexican exceptionalism: first, the terms of trade and Dutch disease effects …

This paper contributes to the empirical literature by investigating trade globalization and financial globalization as … used. The paper has two results. The first result is that both trade globalization and financial globalization deepen the …. In addition, the paper uses KOF (2010) index to measure the overall impact of globalization on income inequality in South …

that are active across country borders, we focus on international trade and multinational enterprise activity as conduits … spillovers through trade and foreign direct investment, the discussion guided by a model of foreign direct investment, trade, and … endogenous technology transfer. There is evidence for technology spillovers from both international trade and the activity of …