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 … on the physical intensity of natural disasters. Chapter 3 zooms in on the local growth effects of natural disasters and …

This paper investigates the relationship between trade policy and growth using a dynamic panel regression model with … specification for growth thus includes as an explanatory variable an interaction term between trade barriers and initial income …-income). Put differently, trade liberalisation seems to offer the possibility of achieving faster growth only in relatively richer …

This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The … variables of medieval trade ows based on an empirical trade model. These results shed new light on many qualitative debates on … the importance and causes of medieval trade. …

European Union (EU25) employing survival analysis. The results show that the duration of trade differs across EU10 and EU15 … markets, for the majority of countries the length of trade is higher in EU10 markets than in the EU15 markets. The estimations … suggest that differentiated products are traded for more extended periods than homogenous products. In addition, trade …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very …

What was the impact of railroads in the output of the United States during the 19th century and how can a New Trade … trade and U.S. county output data from the 19th century, to estimate county gains from trade using a fixed-point algorithm …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …

This study examines whether the relationship between exports and productivity growth differs across firm size. Using … new exporters display sustained and significant productivity growth for five year. This study finds no evidence of … cumulative productivity growth beyond the third year for large firms. These results are robust to alternative measure of …

- horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of … investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade integration by estimating the magnitude and evolution of the home … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …

towards growth of the total factor productivity in the economy. The input of the foreign trade component, which is linked to …, which envisaged that the GDP decline trajectory would hit its lowest point in 2015 (-3.9%), and the rate of GDP growth would … be fluctuating somewhere between (-1.0) and 2.3% in 2016. A decomposition of the growth rate of GDP, with due regard for …