at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural … costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …

-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

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 …

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 …

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the …

consequences of the technological disruption caused by the advent of first-generation broadband internet for world trade. I present … in complex goods. Gravity estimates based on bilateral trade among more than 100 countries between 1998 and 2016 support …