trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … trade after accounting for potential reverse causality. …

exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …

. We first gauge the impact of the sanctions' regime using a structural gravity framework and quantify the trade losses in … by the Russian embargo. Instead, the disruption of the provision of trade finance services is found to have played an …

When, about twenty years ago, the Euro was created, one objective was to facilitate intra-European trade by reducing … transaction costs. Has the Euro delivered? Using sectoral trade data from 1995 to 2014 and applying structural gravity modeling … trade effect for goods of almost 8 percent, but a much smaller effect for services trade. Digging deeper, we detect …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political … trade area for its members with respect to trade in goods and services and investment flows. It then looks at potential …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent … are already highly integrated in terms of trade and factor mobility. The potential discrimination effect against trade … to Europe. At the same time, so-called overlap or similarity indices for trade patterns show an increasing similarity …