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International Trade and Social Connectedness

Bailey, Michael - 2020

We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...

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Arming in the Global Economy : The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends

Garfinkel, Michelle R. - 2019

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...

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Gravity-Model Estimation with Time-Interval Data : Revisiting the Impact of Free Trade Agreements

Egger, Peter - 2020

We challenge the common practice of estimating gravity equations with time-interval data in order to capture dynamic-adjustment effects to trade-policy changes. Instead, we point to a series of advantages of using consecutive-year data recognizing dynamic-adjustment effects. Our analysis reveals...

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Quantifying the Impact of Economic Sanctions on International Trade in the Energy and Mining Sectors

Larch, Mario; Shikher, Serge; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2021

Capitalizing on the latest developments in the gravity literature, we utilize two new datasets on sanctions and trade to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited...

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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters

Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021

of 80 countries show how the relevance of the key NEG variable, market access, depends upon the trade costs specification …

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Trade Policy Along the Global Value Chain : A Rationale for the Existence of Deep Trade Agreements

Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...

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International Trade and Stable Resolutions of Resource Disputes

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022

We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset ﬁrst arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states’ military capacities, but...

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Gold and Silver as Safe Havens : A Fractional Integration and Cointegration Analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022

This paper investigates whether gold and silver can be considered safe havens by examining their long-run linkages with … 22 stock price indices. More specifically, the stochastic properties of the differential between gold/silver prices and … sample starting in January 2020, the evidence in favour of gold and silver as possible safe havens is pretty conclusive since …

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019

reality check drawing upon the World Banks Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 developing …

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Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs : An Application to Brexit

Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

sectoral World Input Output Database (WIOD) to predict the impact of Brexit for every individual EU country by aggregating up …

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