Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? This paper reexamines time series estimates of currency … unions on trade from a historical perspective using a dynamic gravity equation and by conducting in-depth case studies of … of currency unions on trade close to one percent. …

current international laws provide economic benefits to these countries in terms of increased trade for non-IP goods. As this …

Blockchain is increasingly viewed as the solution to many trade facilitation problems, but discussions regarding its … the Global South. Legal instruments such as the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement fall short in providing mechanisms to …

mix up the effect of the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of access to trade and of …

two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six Sub-Saharan African countries during the period …

infrastructure matters for the pattern of trade of developing countries, and can help explaining their low level of regional … integration. The main idea is that, to the extent that it can be used not just to export natural resources but also to trade other … commodities, this infrastructure may bias a countryś stucture of transport costs in favor of overseas trade, and to the detriment …