This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows … between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows … associated political uncertainty. In counterfactual experiments, we impose new borders on Catalan trade, potentially within or …

trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration … of economic integration agreements (EIAs) on members’ trade may be biased upward owing to inadequate control for … intranational trade); we find evidence of this bias using a properly specified gravity equation. Second, our novel methodology …

-EUT), we look back and analyse the ex post trade consequences of the CU-EUT. Employing up-to-date econometric best practices … for regional integration agreements, we quantify both total and heterogeneous trade effects of the CU-EUT. In contrast to … additional increase in EU-Turkey manufacturing trade by 55-65% compared to the previously active Ankara Agreement. We also …

trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration … of economic integration agreements (EIAs) on members’ trade may be biased upward owing to inadequate control for … intranational trade); we find evidence of this bias using a properly specified gravity equation. Second, our novel methodology …

-EUT), we look back and analyse the ex post trade consequences of the CU-EUT. Employing up-to-date econometric best practices … for regional integration agreements, we quantify both total and heterogeneous trade effects of the CU-EUT. In contrast to … additional increase in EU-Turkey manufacturing trade by 55-65% compared to the previously active Ankara Agreement. We also …

We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and … measure of the change in bilateral trade costs in response to a hypothetical policy change. To demonstrate the effectiveness … of our methods, we focus on the integration between the countries from the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA …

We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows … between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows … associated political uncertainty. In counterfactual experiments, we impose new borders on Catalan trade, potentially within or …

Goods trade and international mobility of labor are typically analyzed separately. While there is excellent research in … both fields, far less is known about the interrelationships between international migration and international trade. This … paper provides a first structurally estimable model of international trade with endogenous international migration choices …