There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. The h-index is noteworthy in combining quantity and research quality in a single measure of researcher excellence, and its ability to be extended to measure the quantity and quality of the researchers in a department. We...

This paper surveys a wide body of economic literature on the relationship between currencies and trade. Specifically, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative...

Strengthening commitments for export assistance and establishing comprehensive programs to expand export activities of firms are part of the public policies in almost all developed and developing countries. Not only have governments increased the amounts devoted to these actions in recent...

In 1995, the launch of the WTO provoked a chorus of criticism from environmental advocates. After 20 years, how has the trade and environment debate evolved at the WTO and where does it currently stand? Although much has been written over the past two decades on the politics of trade and...

Using the Scopus database from 1975 to 2022, we conduct a bibliometric analysis of how the exchange rate changes affect international trade. We use the VOSviewer software to analyze authors' keywords, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling and the Gephi software to visualize the network maps....

The COVID-19 pandemic is a low-probability, high-impact systemic risk that has wreaked havoc on international trade and reshaped globalization patterns. The study explored country-level trade resilience during the first wave of the pandemic using the idea of supply chain resilience, which...