rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …

This paper assesses the Euro’s influence upon European trade by estimating two different indicators. The first is the … with its trade partners. This study of the Euro’s influence by means of the Border Effect is a novelty in the literature …, it reveals that the Euro’s influence upon trade is not so clear as papers focused only on the Rose Effect claim. This …

This study examines the home bias in trade in goods and services within the European Union. Using the newest release of … trade-reducing effect of borders is found to be sizeable. It is greater for trade in services than for goods, though the …

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in …

The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors behind the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European … enhanced gravity model estimated with a large sample of bilateral trade flows across 61 countries since 1980. We show that a …-of-sample” approach. The results suggest that trade integration between most of the largest Central and Eastern European countries and the …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … intra and inter-industry trade as well as between trade from western and eastern Europe and we try to assess the relative … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …

We investigate the impact of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of the ten Central, Eastern and … export growth, export market shares, extensive and intensive margins and the dynamics in the number of joint trade links … (Dynamic Trade Link Analysis) from 1995 to 2010. According to our findings, the most contested markets are those for capital …

extensive margin export growth and on a Dynamic Trade Link Analysis. The latter, a newly developed tool, identifies different …