applications of the theory of government decentralization. Decentralization tends to discourage inward FDI and domestic trade and …The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They …. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and to the numerous …

applications of the theory of government decentralization. Decentralization tends to discourage inward FDI and domestic trade and …The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They …. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and to the numerous …

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization … affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the … effects of proximity and regional trade agreements have increased over time. We also document substantial cross …

The literature has paid very little attention to a potential positive endogenous nexus between trade globalization and … the gravity trade theory, using data from a sample of 134 IMF countries over the pe- riod 1974-1998. An extensive search … shows that trade globalization dampens political liberalization, though political liberalization fosters trade globalization …