within and outside the province of entry, as well as production and trade costs. The results indicate that market and … transport infrastructure and informal trade barriers. …

alternative translog-cost function specifications for the estimation of the elasticities and apply seemingly unrelated regressions …

This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry …-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, sectors more open to … international trade are more volatile. Second, trade is accompanied by increased specialization. Third, sectors that are more open …

Trade in quality has become a dominant economic phenomenon in Europe since the 1990s (Fontagné, Freudenberg, Peridy …, 1998). Increasingly, European countries trade in similar products which vary in quality and variety, making quality an … important determinant of trade within these countries. This paper, thus, attempts to quantify the effect of quality in trade …