This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the cost of international … maritime transport through an increase in insecurity regarding goods deliveries. Bilateral trade flows between the main … measures of piracy acts. We found robust evidence indicating that maritime piracy reduces the volume of trade; the effect of …

hypothesis is that the Euro-Mediterranean Process should promote not only trade but also stronger links between the European … exports, which could also intensify the aid-trade relationship. In particular, we expect to find higher trade volumes in both … directions after the process started in 1995 and intensified in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when several bilateral free trade …

This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral …

as an LDC and consequently being eligible for a range of unilateral trade preferences. We estimate a gravity model of … trade over the period of 1970 to 2013, in which identification is achieved by exploiting the particularities and asymmetries …' trade preferences on the exports of LDCs and the effectiveness of the trade preference schemes of the EU, the US, Canada …

This article is the first that quantifies the impact of single windows (SWs) on international trade globally. SWs … function as a single point of entry and exit of the goods traded internationally and are therefore intended to facilitate trade … total trade between two countries with functioning SWs increases by about 37 percent, of which 23 corresponds to exports and …