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

”), or whether the infrastructure investment leads to an increase in overall trade (a “lifting all boats hypothesis”). Our … both a “zero-sum” nature of the impact of infrastructure on cross-border trade, and to the existence of a BRI “network …Foreign infrastructure investments tend to increase cross-border economic activity between investor and recipient …

infrastructure and to date have limited access to EU grants. The economic effects of infrastructure projects in CESEE would, however …. EU initiatives presented in 2018 may help to increase complementarity between Chinese and European infrastructure … trade, investment, and its financing has become even more urgent, with the United States undermining multilateralism and …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …

presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insights from both the global value chain (GVC) and … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four … positive non-tariff effects on both imports (layer 3) and exports (layer 4). These commitment effects suggest that higher trade …

We explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. To … this end, we develop a model of bilateral trade in which two countries produce, consume, and trade a continuum of goods …'s commercial infrastructure, broadly conceived to encompass transportation, communication, and power transmission networks …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …

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 …