simple, analytically solvable ‘new economic geography’ model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern … emerging as market equilibrium is “bubbleshaped”, i.e. it features dispersion of firms both at high and low trade costs and … trade costs. Our central finding is that the market equilibrium is characterised by over-agglomeration for high trade costs …

the context of globalization – a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and … basic negative association between growth and volatility has been preserved during the 1990s, both trade and financial … interaction between volatility and trade integration is significantly positive. We find a similar, although less significant …

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … interrelated i.e. bidirectional causality. Feedback hypothesis is validated between trade openness and financial development …

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …

trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other …) labor that should assist in short-run policy design and to identify the extent of skill biases or otherwise in trade and …

its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration-trade …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and …

) 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 …