aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …

This paper shows that bank linkages have a positive effect on international trade. A global banking network (GBN) is … constructed at the bank level, using individual syndicated loan data from Loan Analytics for 1990-2007. Network distance between … bank pairs is computed and aggregated to country pairs as a measure of bank linkages between countries. Data on bilateral …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of …