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 …

2011. We examine the impact of being connected to Silk Road railways on the 13 destination countries bilateral trade with …

higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance …We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance …We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

This study investigated the impact of infrastructure and human capital development on economic growth in transitional … infrastructure and human capital development on economic growth, no study that the author is aware of has so far explored whether the … interaction between infrastructure and human capital development enhances economic growth. The study mainly used a dynamic panel …

on the level of ICT infrastructure. -- international trade ; business services ; gravity model ; distance ; time zones … distance between business partners is still relevant even when information and communication technologies (ICT) provide … evidence for the continuity effect in trade of business and commercial services which is even higher for trade with Non …

presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insights from both the global value chain (GVC) and … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four … positive non-tariff effects on both imports (layer 3) and exports (layer 4). These commitment effects suggest that higher trade …

The risk of infrastructure investments is driven by unique factors that cannot be well described by standard asset … class factor models. We thus create a nine-factor model based on infrastructure-specific risk exposure, i.e., market risk … our model on a large dataset of U.S. infrastructure stocks in different subsectors (utility, telecommunication, and …

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the …

implemented to analyze the effect of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on exports. We use cross-sectional HS trade data …