and land area which plays a dominant role in trade within the region and in the regional governance. The regional power …

, but little-known influence on all aspects of life (business and work relationships, environment, security, law, trust, etc …

This policy brief examines the effects of the Covid19 pandemic on international trade. Major exporting economies have … logistical bottlenecks are being solved, low demand puts pressure on trade activity. The shipping industry has reduced its … activity around Europe, Asia and America by up to -10% pointing to a prolonged reduction in trade. Over the first quarter of …

. Unilateral decoupling of the EU from China (a doubling of trade costs) would reduce real income in the EU on average by 0 … decline by 1.4 percent (48.4 bn EUR). China would also lose from such a trade war, with real income declining by 1.3 percent …. Should the EU increase its trade barriers against all its non-European trading partners, real income in the Union would fall …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …

Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that … incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into … gains from trade approach can easily explain why changes in perceptions about the future (including news about the future …