We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …

African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain … (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub …-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in GVC-related trade over the period 1990-2015 using measures of backward …

This study examines the home bias in trade in goods and services within the European Union. Using the newest release of … trade-reducing effect of borders is found to be sizeable. It is greater for trade in services than for goods, though the …

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 …

Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by … chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …

The purpose of this article is to present the evolution of Moldova's foreign trade and highlight the changes that took … place in 2010-2018, including the changes following the signing of free trade agreements with the EU and Turkey. The article … identifies the groups of goods in which the Republic of Moldova has revealed comparative advantage in trade with China, Egypt and …

indicators based on a value added rather than gross trade basis and emphasis on the actual (domestic) value added creation due to … exports are needed for policy-makers and researchers to draw a more accurate picture of the link between trade and value added … established in the literature such as the degree of vertical specialisation, value added trade and global value chain income, we …