analysis of the geography of trade relations (i.e. the size, the composition and the direction of exports and imports flows …) between the EU and the ENP countries. The findings of the paper illustrate the emerging patterns of trade relations among the …

The present paper studies the modelling of inter-regional trade flows in the newly developed general equilibrium model … of European Commission, Rhomolo. In contrast to international trade, usually, trade of goods and services between regions … is not recorded statistically. As a result, no statistical data exists for inter-regional trade, which could be readily …

of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity … differences across countries within sectors explains 15% and 21% of the total variation in bilateral trade shares in the models of … productivity differences across sectors within countries explains 39% and 47% of the variation in trade flows in these two models …

German regional data (NUTS 1 level) for GDP, trade, and FDI activity during the period 1976-2005. Applying various … of positive and negative effects of trade/FDI on output activity for a system of interconnected regions. …

Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and … either directly the evolution of trade costs over time or the sensitivity of trade flows to distance in gravity models. In … their survey of the empirical trade literature, Leamer and Levinsohn (1995) conclude that the effect of distance on trade …

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering … technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade intensities and not - as was preciously done - by traditional geographic …