, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans … turn out to be a multiple of the maximum impact implied by the share of food commodities in the consumer price index and …

social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial … distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion …

in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …

Russia. The adopted framework allows to analyse interdependence by estimating volatility spillovers, and also contagion by …

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …