We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We … estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade … shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These measures are instrumented based …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side … confirms that trade and investment liberalization are essential drivers of economic development. The economic growth and trade … benefits from trade facilitation generally dwarf those from tariff liberalization and, to a lesser extent, those achieved …

'virtual size' of an economy as trade with neighboring countries increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale … conception to the point of consumption. As an appropriate set of investment and policy measures is undertaken across a region, it …

trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge … transfer of technology allowed by bilateral trade and investment, regional trade integration has a positive impact on long …

fosters an increase in its rate of growth and extends the diversity of its products. Trade in goods - or in FDI - and flows of … barriers to trade together with product imitation can foster growth and convergence in the member countries. However, in order … to avoid eventual trade and investment diversions, the non-member should envisage to join the integrated zone. …

have affected the spatiality of regional trade by looking at the influence of spatial location and geographic scale on … aim of this paper is to go one step further by showing how network analysis may be applied to the study of regional trade … regional trade. We start by discussing how recent developments in regional trade in West Africa, brought on by urbanization …

This paper studies whether trade integration between the EU15 and Central Europe has led to more export specialization … addition to trade integration, we show that institutional reforms and in particular enterprise reforms contributed to export …