Despite significant economic reforms in many Southern Mediterranean EU neighbour countries, their growth performance … has on average been subdued. This study analyses the differences in growth performance and macroeconomic stability across … from closer ties with the EU that result in higher levels of trade and FDI inflows, once the turbulence of the 'Arab Spring …

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 …

computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers – both unilateral and reciprocal – between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

propelling these economies to miracle-level growth. Just as Bastiat observed, the case made by free trade critics in favor of … trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist … orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated book The Wealth of Nations, free trade critics have repeatedly challenged …

This paper makes the following contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use … of trade on income for 75 developed and developing countries, both for the sample, as a whole, and for each individual … trade on income. Our main findings are: (i) A one-percent increase in the trade share of GDP results, on average, in a …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …

at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural … natural disasters (Chapter 3); and how international integration of countries shapes economic growth and helps to contain the … costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international …