former colonies of the same empire erodes as much as trade with the metropole, whereas trade with third countries exhibits …The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with …

former colonies of the same empire erodes as much as trade with the metropole, whereas trade with third countries exhibits …The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between civil wars and international trade. We first show that trade … presence of two effects that trade can have on the risk of civil conflicts: it may act as a deterrent if trade gains are put at … risk during civil wars but it may also act as an insurance if international trade provides a substitute to internal trade …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

TradeProd, the CEPII trade, production and bilateral protection database, provides an updated version of the worldwide … group is bilateral trade for the 1980-2004 period, based on BACI, one of the most exhaustive worldwide dataset publicly … available. The second is an extension of industrial production figures from the Trade, Production and Protection database by …

, contiguity. A common use of those files is the estimation of gravity equations describing bilateral trade flows. We try to …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between civil wars and international trade. We first show that trade … effects that trade can have on the risk of civil conflicts: it may act as a deterrent if trade gains are put at risk during … civil wars but it may also act as an insurance if international trade provides a substitute to internal trade during civil …

This paper studies the relationship between bilateral trade patterns and opinions. It uses the Eurobarometer public … controlled for. We interpret this effect as reflecting a positive impact of “bilateral affinity” on trade patterns. We also show …