This paper employs an eclectic and extended gravity model of trade to assess the most important determinants of trade in services of the US. The dataset covers the US and its 33 trading partners over the period 1999 to 2013. The estimation method takes into account certain unobservable...

This paper analyses the relevance of Colombian institutional quality in recent years in terms of the performance of its exports within a framework of trade openness. Based on the trade gravity model, we examine the effect of governance on the evolution of Colombian exports through an econometric...