estimation of trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors … elasticities for North Macedonia - i.e. trade elasticities relevant to policy - and ultimately to calibration choices. …

trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors, which is … North Macedonia - i.e. trade elasticities relevant to policy - and ultimately to calibration choices. The income and price …

-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

emphasize the importance of countries access to foreign markets. -- New trade theory ; multi-country models ; economic geography …

agglomeration decreased over time, leading to further dispersion of economic activities. Only the branches of retail trade, other … services sectors can be best explained by Traditional and New Trade Theories, New Economic Geography appears to be not relevant …' agglomeration in the European Union. In particular, agglomeration in retail trade is positively ifluenced by an increase in …

consumers via an extended set of consumption possibilities, as pointed out in the "New Trade Theory". In this paper, we apply … imported variety for the 27 countries of the European Union using highly disaggregated trade data at the HTS-8 level from … variety for consumers stem from intra-European Union trade. …

Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive … and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects … extensive margin when data contain only positive trade flows. We also control for the pervasive presence of heteroscedasticity …

Over the last 20 years the trade literature repeatedly documented the trade-reducing effects of inter- and intra … underlying political borders. However, when observed border effects are not caused by political trade barriers, why should their … "border effect" in the absence of a border. Thereby, the finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1% - 51 …