The paper empirically examines the differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment based on cross …-country data. In general, the results are largely consistent with the positive impact of trade on economic growth as found in the … literature. However, the empirical results based on different categories of countries show that whereas trade has positively …

questions about the future stability of EMU. -- output synchronisation ; trade intensity ; endogeneity ; European Monetary Union …

We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach … combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import … international trade flows than in domestic activity. We confront the model with newly-compiled U.S. import data and industrial …

large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports …

This article documents the Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09, as well as the dramatic recovery in trade of 2009-10. The … authors consider how three distinct policy actions - fiscal stimulus, funding for trade finance, and a commitment to refrain … from increasing trade barriers - might have affected both the collapse and recovery …

, liberalization of the Russian trade regime due to the above factor and appreciation of the ruble contributed to growth in purchases …

In December 2012, the Russian foreign trade was carried out in a situation of stabilized prices on the main export … domestic producers in a situation where Russia is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) …

In November 2012, the negative dynamics of Russia's main foreign trade indices was observed, which situation reflects a … drop both in domestic and external demand. Having become a full member of the World Trade Organization, Russia has started …