We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct quot;synergyquot; effects of …

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

bilateral trade flows. Our tests are based on NACE 2-digit industry aggregation of productivity and of bilateral trade flows … Ricardian hypothesis is surprisingly good at predicting the static pattern of bilateral trade between individual EU member … trade patterns, however, do not seem to be explained consistently neither by the variation in changes of relative …

This paper studies whether trade integration between the EU15 and Central Europe has led to more export specialization … addition to trade integration, we show that institutional refirms and in particular enterprise refirms contributed to export …

Using a bilateral trade equation derived from a monopolistic competition model, we investigated market access … reciprocity in food trade among the US, Canada, the EU and Japan. We explore country and industry-specific market access asymmetry … reciprocal trade openness; indeed, access to the food markets of the US and Japan appears significantly easier than reciprocal …

This paper studies whether trade integration between the EU15 and Central Europe has led to more export specialization … addition to trade integration, we show that institutional reforms and in particular enterprise reforms contributed to export …

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP – also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states …. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic … relationships with suppliers and customers. However, there may also be instances where countries circumvent trade restrictions by …