compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices on infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

2011. We examine the impact of being connected to Silk Road railways on the 13 destination countries bilateral trade with …

This paper cites statistics published by the World Economic Forum and concludes that there is no infrastructure crisis … infrastructure, which places it firmly in the top 8 percent in terms of infrastructure development. Thus, it is not reasonable to … argue or conclude that there is an infrastructure crisis …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …

, we document that offshoring reduces the relative demand for non-ICT capital, thereby also polarising the demand for …

presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insights from both the global value chain (GVC) and … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four … positive non-tariff effects on both imports (layer 3) and exports (layer 4). These commitment effects suggest that higher trade …

on the level of ICT infrastructure. -- international trade ; business services ; gravity model ; distance ; time zones … distance between business partners is still relevant even when information and communication technologies (ICT) provide … evidence for the continuity effect in trade of business and commercial services which is even higher for trade with Non …