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 …

This paper assesses the Euro's influence upon European trade by estimating two different indicators. The first is the … with its trade partners. This study of the Euro's influence by means of the Border Effect is a novelty in the literature …, it reveals that the Euro's influence upon trade is not so clear as papers focused only on the Rose Effect claim. This …

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

use accessions to \Globalisation Clubs" (WTO, OECD, EU), financial liberalisation and an instrument for trade openness to … study the trade-off between efficiency (proxied by real GDP per capita and TFP) and equity (proxied by the labour share of … income and the Gini index of inequality). We find that (i) most of our episodes lead to an increase in trade openness (ii …

around 12-22%. In comparison, smaller EU Member States seem to have benefited somewhat more compared to larger countries. The …

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 … Union. The number of years passed since a country joined the EU has a significant impact on the bias. The longer a country …

differences across import suppliers, with EU member states who are not part of the euro area assigning a relatively larger weight …

Global trade contracted quickly and severely during the global crisis. This paper, using a unique dataset of French … firms, matching together export data with firm-level credit constraints, shows that most of the 2008-2009 trade collapse is … crisis, the overall impact of credit constraints on trade remains limited. …

The unprecedented drop in international trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 has mainly …