effects in terms of capital flows and international trade? It is found that the project is above all a way to deal with large … increase production and international trade. International trade and foreign direct investment have been positively affected …

Correct estimates of import demand elasticities are essential for measuring the gains from trade and predicting the … impact of trade policies. We show that estimates of import demand elasticities hinge critically on whether they are derived … using trade quantities or trade values, and this difference is due to properties of the estimators. Using partial …

-effects of social protection and high taxes. The compensation hypothesis can thus be reformulated: Through trade, the citizens in …

-select into groups that use different networks to fill vacancies. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs may … result in greater wage inequality, if trade costs are initially high, it can also lead to a wider path up the jobs ladders …

duration of trade which has found that international trade is often of strikingly short duration, we aim to establish whether … accepted theoretical explanation for these short trade durations, we seek to provide a thorough empirical description and …. Among our empirical findings are (i) that the duration of trade remains stable across the long time period that we study …

enforcement institutions determine international trade patterns. We find that the benefits of judicial quality for the exports of …. -- International Trade ; Comparative Advantage ; Contract Enforcement ; Vertical Integration. …

determine international trade patterns. We find that vertical integration lessens the impact of a country's ability to enforce … able to organize the production process. -- International Trade ; Comparative Advantage ; Contract Enforcement ; Financial …

Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports … persistent characteristic of trade throughout the extended time period that we study: in general only 40 percent of trade flows … observed explanatory variables - which in turn influence the hazard of trade flows dying in a negative direction - imply that …