, bilateral economic interactions like trade, FDI and portfolio investment, positively correlate with lending. Chinese banks …' lending to EMDEs also strongly correlates with trade, but not with FDI and, unlike other banks, it correlates negatively with …

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected … euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area …

This paper examines the impact of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on trade within the euro area. Using panel … data for 22 industrial countries, the analysis estimates the effect of the euro''s arrival on area-wide trade compared to … bilateral trade flows between other industrial countries. Controlling for other influences according to the ""gravity"" model of …

This paper considers the impact on trade of preferential arrangements in Europe since the 1950s. Using a first … difference version of the gravity model, we find that the EEC and EFTA altered the pattern of international trade. We also find … evidence of trade diversion in several cases, notably that of the EEC in the 1960s …

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected … euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area … different specialization patterns. This raises the question of the distribution of gains and losses from external trade shocks …