Policy makers in "small" countries facing trade liberalisation have become concerned with the potential loss of manufacturing employment and output to "large" economies in the presence of economies of scale in production and international transport costs. This paper offers a methodology to...

Die EU-Osterweiterung birgt auch für die Wirtschaft im Land Brandenburg zusätzliche Chancen und Risiken. Von allen Beitrittsländern ist Polen der größte Handelspartner Brandenburgs. Anhand des brandenburgischen Außenhandels wird untersucht, welche Potentiale sich der Wirtschaft des Landes...

This study suggests another explanation of the missing globalization puzzle typically observed in the empirical gravity models. In contrast to the previous research that focused on aggregated trade flows, we employ the trade flows in manufacturing products broken down by 25 three-digit ISIC...