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 …

through a synthetic index provides us with valuable insights into the structure of the European industry. - Trade ; Border …

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 …

This paper empirically investigates the effect of the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) on manufacturing trade … flows. By applying a state-of-the-art structural gravity model with intranational (i.e., domestic) trade and using … disaggregated data, we quantify both the trade impact and the observed heterogeneity in the FTA estimates. In line with literature …

Beside large capital flows, euro area financial centres feature important and growing trade surpluses. We investigate … the composition of their gross trade flows and disentangle (i) domestic and foreign production content that is (ii … large. When we replace the official trade statistics with predictions based on the gravity law of trade, the surpluses of …

China's merchandise trade surplus has reached an all-time high and is likely to rise further. A key driver appears to … trading partners with high trade deficits with China. As this constellation could be the source of growing trade conflicts …, this article analyses China's growing trade surplus in several dimensions with a focus on Chinas trade relation to the EU. …