This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...

The objective of this study is to examine the impact of exchange rate on Nigeria’s trade balance. Time series data on trade balance, external reserves, exchange rate, money supply and real GDP were used in the analysis and the data were subjected to unit root tests to determine their time...

This paper estimates long-run and short-run trade elasticities of export demand for Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. To that end, a traditional export demand model is estimated for all three countries in the study using the bounds test for analyzing level relationships within the...

Using a long-run series of I-O tables, some simple facts are explored with respect to the Italian trade balance in the period 1960-2000. The analysis confirms that the Italian economy underwent a de-specialisation process before the euro era. This phenomenon weakened our export capacity, and in...

Lots of studies were produced in the past decade on the importance of the quality of the institutions for economic development. Several authors focused on the indicators provided by Doing Business (World Bank) to highlight the main factors favouring or rather limiting the economic development....

The aim of this study is to provide a succinct description of the specialisation model of four economies on the southern shores of the Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) and its recent evolution, concentrating in particular on the merchandise trade. The analysis shows, according...

A defining feature of globalization is the fragmentation of individual blocks of an integrated production process across countries. This necessitates flows of final goods as well as their parts and components back and forth among the involved nations. A depreciation of a country’s currency...

This paper uses an approach recently suggested by Gabaix (Eonometrica 2011) to investigate for the first time the role of idiosyncratic shocks to the largest firms in the dynamics of imports by firms from manufacturing industries. For Germany we find evidence that imports are power-law...

My purpose in this paper is to analyze how offshoring of intermediate goods affects different occupational groups in Swedish manufacturing firms using data for the period 2001-2008. Advances in ICT, along with improved infrastructure and lower cost of transportation have boosted the contracting...