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 …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the …

-justified gravity model of trade augmented with political factors is estimated using a two-stage panel-data approach for 104 exporting …

implemented to analyze the effect of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on exports. We use cross-sectional HS trade data …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the quality of the Romanian governance process on the trade with EU … improvement of the Romanian institutions would unleash the trade between Romania and the other EU countries. …