- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for …

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content …

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements … macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained relatively scarce so far, in particular for the Euro area where trade and … from 2002-2012, to test the so-called trade-finance nexus. Since theoretical models stress that both flows might be …

trade contributes to economic growth, this could, in turn, impede economic development. Despite extensive literature on the … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

targets of inclusive development via trade facilitation, and regional integration, the paper argues that given the Covid-19 … setback full potential depends on trade-led spillover benefits and structural factors. Our objective is to show that: given … preferential access trade agreement--the ricochet effect of the trade-induced productivity benefits via intermediates in the …