Over the last 20 years the border-effect literature repeatedly documented the trade-reducing effect of inter- and intra … political borders? This paper identifies a discontinuous trade reduction along a geographic dimension that neither existing nor … defunct political borders can explain. Trade between the East and the West of Japan is 23.1% - 51.3% lower than trade within …

Barriers to international trade are more sizeable than can be accounted for on the basis of formal trade barriers and … trade patterns. Distinguishing between homogeneous and differentiated product groups, we estimate gravity equations to … investigate how patterns of bilateral trade are affected by variation in the quality of institutions across countries. JEL codes …

North-North and North-South regional trade initiatives have been documented in several studies. However, empirical evidence … increased economic integration. We find that preferential trade liberalization has fostered the influence of factors underlined … by the recent trade theories, such as economies of scale and input-output linkages, relative to comparative advantage …

regions vary by their involvement in international trade and by vulnerability to external shocks. Russian economy is becoming … fully joined the World trade organization. The goal of the current study is to examine the diversity of Russian regions and … to assess the role of external trade in local economic development across Russia. We specially discuss the probable …

present, however, notwithstanding recent enlargements, the intra-EU trade share on total EU exchanges is declining while the … interconnections between EU and Russia which have led to envisage the creation of a Common Economic Space or even of a free trade zone … trade links between EU, Russia and the other transition economies, offering a background for the debate on the reshaping of …

We investigate the effect of economic integration agreements on the stability of international trade at the 4 digit … SITC level. Using annual trade data for over 180 countries from 1962 to 2005 we examine how economic integration agreements … affect the length of trade relationships, the volume at the start of new trade relationships, and how quickly trade grows …

I investigate the effect of changing language skills on trade using an unique panel data set on spoken language. It … countries have witnessed an advancing trade integration and large changes in foreign language knowledge. I estimate a … significant and positive effect of changing common English skills on trade using the gravity model and controlling for endogeneity …

Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and … either directly the evolution of trade costs over time or the sensitivity of trade flows to distance in gravity models. In … their survey of the empirical trade literature, Leamer and Levinsohn (1995) conclude that the effect of distance on trade …