strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …

-aggregated trade data, turn out to be highly correlated with macroeconomic phenomena such as national productivity levels and growth …

This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows … measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a … doubling in the number of terrorist incidents is associated with a decrease in bilateral trade by about 4 percent. …

This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows … measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a … doubling in the number of terrorist incidents is associated with a decrease in bilateral trade by about 4 percent. …

services. Above a particular trade level, transport service suppliers find it profit-maximizing to invest in an advanced …In this paper we claim that distance alone is a poor proxy for international transport costs in empirical studies. We … model a manufacturing and a transport sector and let the level of manufacturing exports determine the demand for transport …

Linguistic distance as a variable of the gravity model for international trade: example of China. Fundamental and … distance on bilateral trade by using a set of indicators aimed to depict linguistic distance or proximity of China and its … major trade partners. For this purpose, the gravity model that uses the linguistic distance as one of the elements of …

comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour …

We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … framework in explaining German trade and FDI activity. Looking carefully at cross-variable linkages we basically find … substitutive links between trade flows and outward FDI in line with earlier empirical evidence for Germany. Building upon German …

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 …

This paper makes the following contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use … of trade on income for 75 developed and developing countries, both for the sample, as a whole, and for each individual … trade on income. Our main findings are: (i) A one-percent increase in the trade share of GDP results, on average, in a …