2011. We examine the impact of being connected to Silk Road railways on the 13 destination countries bilateral trade with …

higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance …We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

economic infrastructure, but also for sub-indices of infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance. …The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly …-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as steep increases in aid for infrastructure since a distinct change in donor behavior in …

higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance …We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as … well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces …

Railways are a key infrastructure that facilitates trade and regional integration with potential consequences on local … cover induced by the railways. The findings encourage policy makers – in assessing the effects of transport infrastructure …-economic and environmental infrastructure impacts for the case of the Konkan Railway, which is one of the biggest railway …

This paper studies the regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on employment and transport volumes by … effects from infrastructure provision on various outcome variables. Moreover, we find that rail transport does not crowd out … local road transport. …

surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries …Many different approaches have developed for the evaluation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) and free trade agreements … ability to predict the trade effects of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, the first 'second-generation' FTA of the EU …