trade patterns in a historical dataset on Chinese rice prices. Our results suggest that spatial features were important for … the expansion of interregional trade. Geography dictates, first, over what distances trade was possible in different … the direction in which a trading network is expanding. Moreover, our analysis captures the impact of new trade routes both …

The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD … trade (i.e., enhancing exports) in developing nations. …

, they cannot explain the post-1929 increase in trade costs. Protectionism seems the most likely alternative candidate. …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

Both Russia and the EU are undertaking significant changes in foreign trade relations. Russia seeks WTO accession and … relationship can EU and Russia develop? The Paper analyses the asymmetric trade structure, the unstable and confused trade relation … trade policy vis-à-vis Russia is a disturbing flight to the future away from today’s concrete policy problems. The aim of a …

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions are controlled for, trade is almost always insignificant, and often enters the income equation with the 'wrong' (i …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … bias of monetary policy. Our results suggest that increased trade could account for as much as a quarter of European …