The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade varies along several dimensions, including the type of product, the size of firm and over time. In this note, I provide evidence of systematic variation in the trade response to the pandemic along another, previously unexplored...

Empirical research on the gravity model of international trade in the wake of Rose (2000) affirms that currency union formation doubles or triples trade. However, currency unions could also be established precisely because trade among their members was already high. In OLS estimation, this would...

Empirical research on the gravity model of international trade in the wake of Rose (2000) affirms that currency union formation doubles or triples trade. However, currency unions could also be established precisely because trade among their members was already high. In OLS estimation, this would...

Mit der Einheitlichen Europäischen Akte hatte sich die Europäische Gemeinschaft die Verwirklichung des Binnenmarktes als 'Raum ohne Binnengrenzen' bis zum 31. Dezember 1992 zum Ziel gesetzt. Die Vollendung des Binnenmarktes war zwar im EWG-Vertrag von 1957 bereits angelegt, es waren und sind...