effects of integration but more pronounced labour market effects from immigration. …

Barriers to international trade are known to be large but due to data limitations it is hard to measure them directly … trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from observable trade data. I show that this trade cost measure is … consistent with a broad range of leading trade theories including Ricardian and heterogeneous firms models. In an application I …

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of … America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have … strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue …

Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with … respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate … price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian model. We motivate our estimator by proving that the estimator developed in …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … local dialect between regions have a sizable and significant positive impact on intra-national trade. We interpret this …

This paper derives a micro-founded gravity equation in general equilibrium based on a translog demand system that … allows for endogenous markups and substitution patterns across goods. In contrast to standard CES-based gravity equations …, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the exporting country only provides a small share of the destination country …

Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken …) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic … articles. On average, a common (official or spoken) language increases trade flows directly by 44%. …

This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders …

a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …