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Borders have a sizable negative impact on trade flows. Given the vast number of individual goods potentially traded, this "border effect" could have two possible explanations: (1) less international than domestic trade in the goods that are actually traded between countries ("flow"), or (2)...

Dieser Beitrag soll einen Überblick und eine Systematik im Hinblick auf die aktuellen Beiträge zum Phänomen der Fragmentierung geben. Während man im Zusammenhang mit der Ausweitung des Nord-Süd-Handels von einer horizontalen Globalisierung spricht, gilt Fragmentierung als Ausdruck einer...

This paper examines a variety of approaches to issues of globalization and international trade. It was implicated by early researchers and academicians that there are basic rules for international trade and labor division that should be investigated in order to maximize global trade. Within...

In this paper, we establish the importance of experience in international trade in reducing unmeasured trade costs and facilitating bilateral trade. We find a strong role for experience, measured in years of positive trade, for both aggregate and sectoral bilateral trade. In an augmented gravity...

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for situations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's Act II effects may occur....

Despite the increasing role of services in the world economy, the theory of international trade in services is a field which is relatively weak explored both in foreign as well in Polish literature. In this article, I describe the ways how to explain the model of trade in services using the...

We investigate the interplay, in international trade, between comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale that are external to the firm. We focus especially on "advantage reversals," where the country with a comparative-cost disadvantage in producing a good nevertheless is able to...