one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …

simple, analytically solvable "new economic geography" model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern … emerging as market equilibrium is "bubble-shaped", i.e. it features dispersion of firms both at high and low trade costs and … trade costs. Our central finding is that the market equilibrium is characterised by over-agglomeration for high trade costs …

The goal of the present paper is two-fold. First, I explore the impact of different trade patterns on industrial … industrial specialisation as a result of intra- or inter-industry trade. Furthermore, I justify the predictions of different … theoretical trade models on the basis of my results . Second, I analyse the degree of risk-sharing between and within the regions …

This paper shows that bank linkages have a positive effect on international trade. A global banking network (GBN) is … trade from IMF DOTS are used as the subject of the analysis and data on bilateral bank lending from BIS locational data are … used to control for financial integration and financial flows. Using a gravity approach to modeling trade with country …