The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network … assessment of theoretical models that aim to identify the determinants of firm-to-firm networks in international trade. …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …

This paper shows that a regional bias resulting from trade integration alters the transmission of a countryś monetary … simple model which illustrates how a concentration of trade flows among regional trading partners affects the sensitivity of … the trade balance to the terms-of-trade. In particular, the trade balance becomes less sensitive to the terms-of-trade vis …

In a situation of slowdown of global trade growth, growth in the Russian foreign trade turnover is declining, as well …. It is to be noted that though during seven months of this year trade with far abroad countries showed positive dynamics … the domestic market of the Customs Union in a situation of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization …

In June 2013, the Russian foreign trade key indicators saw an insignificant growth on a year-on-year basis. Growth in … exports was determined by increase in physical volumes of exports against falling export prices, whereas growth in imports was …

We explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. To … this end, we develop a model of bilateral trade in which two countries produce, consume, and trade a continuum of goods … Stackelberg game, the results are ambiguous. An empirical analysis based on recent international trade data supports our …

Calculations of decomposition of the RF GDP growth rates in 1999–2015 and the MED's forecast for 2016–2019 show that in … source of economic growth. However, they alone are insufficient to ensure growth rates of 4% or more. To achieve that, it is … important to increase structural economic growth rates, too. In particular, with the aggregate factor productivity to be …

Autónoma de Baja California Sur. We contrast actual and theoretical trade relations between México and Canada, with … International theory. When a country enters a process of free trade and market expansion, population welfare is increased and … industry enters a process of convergence between partner countries, leading to an increase in trade participation among …

This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less … integrated trading partners. Thus, they bear the cost of trade balance expansion, while competitive exchange rate moves vis …-a-vis RTA trading partners result in no expansion or deterioration of the overall trade balance. First, using the data on 138 …