models. In contrast to the previous research that focused on aggregated trade flows, we employ the trade flows in …-linear specification of the standard as well as the generalized gravity equations. Our data set comprises trade flows for 22 OECD countries …

) estimation procedure applied to the non-linear multiplicative specification of the gravity model. We use the trade flows for all … explanatory variables such as exporter and importer total income, distance, preferential trade agreements, common border …, historical ties, and common language on the volume of trade. Our study provides comprehensive evidence on likely qualitative and …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms … by trade costs and country size: smaller and/or more centrally located nations suffer less from inefficient policies at …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms … by trade costs and country size: smaller and/or more centrally located nations suffer less from inefficient policies at …

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … (intensive margin). But trade may also increase if a trading bilateral relationship is newly established between countries that … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms … by trade costs and country size: smaller and/or more centrally located nations suffer less from inefficient policies at …

Eastern European countries on international trade. This approach offers an evaluation of the borders' impact on trade. A … market is fragmented when actual trade differs from the trade that would be expected in an economy without border …-related barriers. Recent findings have emphasized informal trade barriers as obstacles to trade flows (Anderson and Marcouiller, 2002 …

Cultural proximity increases bilateral trade flows through a trade-cost and a bilateral-affinity (preferences) channel …-invariant, in a gravity model of bilateral trade, the time dimension of the ESC data allows to identify the preferences effect. The … find robust evidence for a sizable preferences effect, the impact of cultural proximity on trade runs largely through the …

establishment of a free trade area (FTA) between the parties. The aim of our study is to evaluate the possible economic, social and … environmental impact of such a free trade agreement between the European Union and Russia. The results of the analysis indicate that …

Bergstrand (1989) using both aggregate and disaggregated trade flows among 22 OECD countries recorded for the sample period …, typically observed in empirical gravity models for aggregate trade flows, largely disappears when one estimates a gravity model … using disaggregated trade data at the level of individual industries. Secondly, we document that accounting for multilateral …