how African migrants foster African trade. Relying on a new dataset on international bilateral migration recently released … exports of differentiated products. Focusing on intra-African trade, we find that the pro-trade effect of African migrants is …

upgrading of the EU15 imports from its emerging neighbours. The EU15 trade with emerging markets in Asia have strengthened the …

We study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set a simple theoretical model … predicting that the closer a country to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its trade. The idea is that … security measures, which impede trade, are directed both against the source country of terror and its neighbor countries where …

The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with … the colonizer (metropole). However, after three decades trade declines more than 60%. We also find that trade between …

We improve the study of the effects of a Currency Union on trade. Using data on French exports at the firm level, we …

-Section). This comprehensive dataset on non-tariff measures is intended for descriptive, trade policy or econometric analysis. …